Free Christmas Countdown (+ Guide)

What is a Christmas countdown?

A Christmas countdown shows how long is left until Christmas Day, in days, hours, minutes and seconds.

This one also shows the sleeps, for counting with kids, and the share of the wait since last Christmas that's gone.

How it works

The countdown runs on your device, on your clock and in your time zone.

How many days until Christmas?

The big tiles show the exact time left to midnight, or to the time you pick. The sleeps count the calendar days, so on Christmas Eve there's one sleep left.

The two can differ by one in the evening. At 10 pm on October 3, 2026, there are 82 full days left, and 83 sleeps.

What day is Christmas?

Christmas is always on December 25, but the weekday moves. Here's the day it falls on for the next five years.

Weekends left before Christmas

The calculator counts the Saturdays between today and the day you're counting to. In December 2026 that's the 5th, 12th and 19th.

It's a quick way to see how many weekends are left for shopping, baking or travel.

Mistakes to avoid

These are the slips that come up most.

• Counting the days from someone else's time zone
• Mixing up the sleeps and the days left in the evening
• Leaving gifts that ship from abroad to the last weekend

Who is the Christmas countdown for?

It's for kids counting sleeps, families planning the holidays and anyone who likes watching the seconds drop, and these tools help around it.

• Discount calculator – for what a sale price really saves
• Currency converter – for gifts bought in another currency
• New Year countdown – for the next big night
• Halloween countdown – for the holiday before it

Leave the page open and watch the lights while the seconds tick down.