On this page you'll find a live countdown showing exactly how many days are left until Thanksgiving. If Thanksgiving already passed this year, the tool automatically counts down to next year's Turkey Day.
Features of the Thanksgiving countdown
- Days until Thanksgiving: A big, answer-first number (updated live! 🦃).
- Weeks + time breakdown: See weeks, plus hours, minutes, and seconds.
- Automatic rollover: After Thanksgiving, it switches to next year's Thanksgiving.
- Moving target: Unlike fixed-date holidays, Thanksgiving moves around (it's the fourth Thursday of November). The tool handles this automatically using the federal definition.
All that to countdown the time until you'll watch football, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles again.
Technical notes
The countdown runs in your browser using your local time zone. Thanksgiving is treated as the fourth Thursday of November at 12:00 AM local time. This is for US Thanksgiving – Canadian Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October.
