On this page you’ll find a live countdown showing exactly how many days are left until Christmas. If Christmas already passed this year, the tool automatically counts down to next year’s Christmas.
Features of the Christmas countdown
- Days until Christmas: A big, answer-first number (updated live! 🎅).
- Weeks + time breakdown: See weeks, plus hours, minutes, and seconds.
- Christmas Eve option: Toggle between Dec 24 and Dec 25 so you can count down until the night Santa arrives... and the anniversary of the night John McClane and LAPD Sergeant Al Powell thwarted a terrorist attack on Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles .
- Automatic rollover: After Christmas, it switches to next year.
Using the countdown
- Select Christmas from the Event dropdown (it’s preselected on this page).
- Optionally toggle to Christmas Eve.
- Watch the counter update in real time.
Technical notes
The countdown runs in your browser using your local time zone. For the holiday preset, Christmas is treated as Dec 25 at 12:00 AM local time (and Christmas Eve is Dec 24 at 12:00 AM). If you load this page late on Dec 25, it will roll forward to next year - start the countdown early!
Other countdowns
Related tools
- Days Until Date Calculator (countdown to any date)
- Day of the Year Calculator (and days left in the year)
- Days Between Dates Calculator
