A live countdown to Christmas (December 25). See the days remaining plus a running hours, minutes and seconds timer — free and running entirely in your browser.
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Christmas falls on December 25 every year.
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How many days until Christmas?
Christmas Day falls on December 25 every year, so the countdown above rolls over to next year automatically the moment this year's Christmas passes — it will never show a negative number.
The big number is the count of whole days from today until December 25. The live timer beneath it ticks down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds in your local time zone, so it stays accurate wherever you are.
How the date is worked out
Christmas is a fixed-date holiday: it is always December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, regardless of the day of the week. That makes the countdown simple — there is no moving date to track, unlike Thanksgiving or Easter. The day of the week Christmas falls on does shift by one or two each year because of leap years, which is why the date shown above tells you both the date and its weekday.
Christmas falls on December 25 every year. The counter at the top of the page shows the exact number of days until the next December 25, updated live. Below it, a timer counts down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds.
What day of the week is Christmas this year?
Christmas falls on December 25 every year. The weekday therefore changes from year to year. The date line under the headline shows the full weekday and date of the upcoming Christmas, calculated automatically from your device clock.
Does the countdown reset after Christmas?
The Christmas countdown resets automatically. As soon as Christmas has passed, the timer switches to next year's date, so the figure on screen is always the time until the next Christmas. It never counts up and never shows a negative number, and the year label beside the headline updates to the new target year.
Is Christmas Day a public holiday?
Christmas Day, December 25, is a public holiday in the United States, the United Kingdom and more than a hundred other countries. It commemorates the birth of Jesus and is also kept widely as a secular family holiday. In the UK, when December 25 falls on a Saturday or Sunday the bank holiday is moved to the next working day. Orthodox churches that still use the Julian calendar mark Christmas on what is January 7 in the Gregorian calendar.