How many days until Christmas 2026?
Wondering how many days until Christmas 2026? The timer above is a Christmas countdown in weeks, days, hours, and minutes until December 25, and it reaches zero at midnight wherever you are. Count down till Christmas, or follow this countdown before the day.
On Christmas Day the page joins in the celebration, and from December 26 it starts counting down to Christmas 2027.
When is Christmas?
Christmas Day is on December 25 every year. In 2026 it falls on a Friday, and in 2027 on a Saturday.
Not everyone celebrates on the same day, though. Many Orthodox churches, including those in Russia, Serbia, and Ethiopia, celebrate on January 7, because they still follow the older Julian calendar.
December 25 is Christmas Day across most of the world, and a public holiday in the majority of countries.
Create your own Christmas countdown
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Heading home for the holidays? A trip countdown to your departure day keeps the excitement going.
Questions
Christmas is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. His actual birthday isn't known, but December 25 is the date Christian tradition has kept for centuries. For many people, religious or not, it's also a season of family get-togethers, decorated trees, gift giving, and big holiday meals.
No one knows the real date. The Bible doesn't say when Jesus was born, and December 25 is the date Christians came to celebrate it. The oldest surviving record of that choice is an entry in a Roman calendar for the year 336, so by then Christians in Rome were already marking the day.
It depends on the country. December 25 is a public holiday in most of the world. December 24 is a public holiday in some countries and an ordinary working day in others, though many people still take the afternoon or evening off.
Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas. It is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, and much of Canada, and when it falls on a weekend a weekday is usually given off instead.
The timer above is the Christmas countdown in weeks as well as days. Seven days on the clock is one week, and it reaches zero at midnight on December 25, 2026, in your time zone.
They run from Christmas Day to Twelfth Night on January 5, the evening before the feast of Epiphany on January 6. Many people keep their decorations up until then.