A live countdown to New Year (January 1). See the days remaining plus a running hours, minutes and seconds timer — free and running entirely in your browser.
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New Year falls on January 1 every year.
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How many days until New Year?
New Year's Day is January 1, so this countdown targets the very start of the next year and rolls over automatically once it arrives.
The headline shows the whole days remaining; the timer below ticks down hours, minutes and seconds to midnight in your local time zone.
How the date is worked out
The new year begins at midnight on January 1 in the Gregorian calendar used by most of the world. Because the countdown uses your device's clock, the final seconds line up with midnight where you are — not with a fixed global moment. Many other new-year celebrations (Lunar New Year, Rosh Hashanah, Nowruz) fall on different dates set by other calendars; this page counts down to the standard January 1.
New Year's Day falls on January 1 every year. The counter at the top of the page shows the exact number of days until the next January 1, updated live. Beneath it, a timer counts down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds.
What time does the countdown reach zero?
The New Year countdown reaches zero at midnight at the start of January 1 in your local time zone, because it reads your device clock rather than a fixed server time. Nothing is sent anywhere, so the figure is right wherever you happen to be. Someone in Sydney therefore sees it hit zero many hours before someone in New York.
Does this count down to Lunar New Year?
This page counts down to January 1 on the Gregorian calendar, not to Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is set by a lunisolar calendar as the second new moon after the winter solstice, which places it between 21 January and 20 February. There is a separate Chinese New Year countdown for that date.
Is New Year's Day a public holiday?
New Year's Day, January 1, is a public holiday in the United States, the United Kingdom and most other countries. In the UK, when January 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday the bank holiday moves to the following Monday, and Scotland takes January 2 as well. January 1 has opened the year in the Gregorian calendar since 1582, though Britain and its colonies did not adopt that calendar until 1752. Many other calendars, including the Chinese, Islamic, Hebrew and Ethiopian ones, begin their year on different dates.