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About Christmas

Christmas is the Christian feast marking the birth of Jesus and the most widely observed holiday in the Western calendar. It falls on a fixed date, 25 December, every year, so the day of the week shifts but the date never moves. Many countries treat it as a public holiday, with the surrounding period — from Christmas Eve on the 24th through Boxing Day on the 26th — observed as an extended break. Secular traditions such as gift-giving, decorated trees, and family meals now sit alongside the religious observance across much of the world.

Date rule: Always 25 December.

When is the next Christmas?

The next Christmas is Friday, December 25, 2026 — in 190 days. The countdown at the top of this page updates every second in your own time zone, so the number stays accurate wherever you are reading from. Because Christmas is treated as an all-day calendar date rather than a fixed clock time, the countdown rolls over at midnight in your local zone, not at midnight UTC. If you are coordinating across regions, set reminders against this date and let each person's device localise it.

This year the holiday lands on a Friday, which means it falls on a working day, so any public-holiday closures apply on the day itself in countries that observe it. Across the next five occurrences listed below, Christmas touches 5 different weekdays and lands on a weekend 1 of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.

How the Christmas date is set

Christmas belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. Always 25 December. Because the date is fixed, the only thing that changes from year to year is the weekday it falls on, and whether countries that observe it move the public-holiday day when it lands on a weekend. That makes it straightforward to plan years ahead: the date in the table below is the date every time.

If you want the dates in your own calendar app, use the live countdown above, then jump to the western & secular countdowns or the full holiday list to line up the surrounding observances. For a date-by-date planning view, the five-year table gives you the exact weekday for each upcoming year at a glance.

Christmas dates for the next five years

Christmas FAQ

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