How Many Days Until Christmas 2026?

Christmas Day falls on Friday, December 25, 2026. From today, there are 59 days until Christmas. That is about 8 weeks away — late enough that it feels distant, early enough that shipping deadlines and travel prices start moving in November.

For a live countdown with days, hours, minutes and seconds, see the Christmas countdown page. It updates itself every second and shows the dates for the next five Christmases.

How to count the days until Christmas

The simplest method is to count from today's date to December 25. Because Christmas is always on the same calendar date, only two things matter: today's date and whether you include today in the count. Most people count the number of midnights remaining — that is the convention our countdown pages use. If today is Christmas Eve, there is 1 day until Christmas; on Christmas morning itself, the countdown rolls over to next year automatically.

• Days remaining: 59 days from today
• Weeks remaining: roughly 8 weeks
• Weekday: Christmas 2026 falls on a Friday

Christmas dates for the next five years

Because December 25 is a fixed date, only the weekday drifts year to year. Christmas lands on each weekday roughly once every six or seven years — a fact retailers plan whole campaigns around.

Related December dates worth counting down

• Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year
• Cyber Monday — the online-only follow-up the following Monday
• New Year's Eve — December 31, six days after Christmas
• Winter solstice — the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere

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