Days Until Christmas Live Christmas Countdown
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How many days until Christmas? This live Christmas countdown shows the days, hours, minutes and seconds to Christmas Day, plus how many sleeps and weekends are left. It uses your own device’s clock, so it is right for your time zone, and you can switch it to count down to Christmas Eve.
Quick answer: The countdown above shows exactly how long is left until Christmas Day, 25 December, in your time zone. It updates every second. Press Christmas Eve to count down to 24 December instead, or Copy the countdown to paste it into a message.
How the Christmas countdown works
- Days, hours, minutes, seconds: the exact time left until midnight at the start of Christmas Day where you are.
- Sleeps to go: how many nights are left, counting tonight. Children often count sleeps, so this number is one more than the full days shown when there is part of today left.
- Weekends left: how many Saturdays are left before Christmas, handy for planning shopping trips, parties and wrapping.
- After 25 December the countdown moves on to next Christmas automatically.
Christmas Day dates
| Year | Christmas Eve | Christmas Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Thursday, 24 December | Friday, 25 December |
| 2027 | Friday, 24 December | Saturday, 25 December |
| 2028 | Sunday, 24 December | Monday, 25 December |
Plan the run-up to Christmas
- Organise the office or family gift swap with our free Secret Santa generator.
- Stuck for presents? Try the gift idea generator.
- Keep the kids busy with a Christmas word search or the Christmas trivia quiz.
- Counting down to something else? Use the countdown to any date.
FAQ
How many days until Christmas from today?
The big number in the countdown above is the answer for right now. It counts full days until 25 December in your own time zone and refreshes every second.
Why are sleeps one more than days?
Days counts whole 24-hour periods left. Sleeps counts the nights, including tonight, so during the day the sleeps number is usually one higher.
Does the countdown work in every country?
Yes. It reads the date and time from your phone or computer, so it counts down to Christmas where you are.
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