How many days until Hanukkah?

About Hanukkah

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish celebration beginning on the 25th of Kislev, commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple and the miracle of the oil. It usually falls in late November or December in Gregorian terms. Each night a candle is lit on the menorah, and customs include fried foods, dreidel games, and gifts. Because the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, its Gregorian start date varies within a several-week window each year. This countdown computes the first day with the Hebrew calendar engine shipped on the site.

Date rule: 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar; eight days.

When is the next Hanukkah?

The next Hanukkah is Friday, December 4, 2026 — in 169 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 Hanukkah 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, Hanukkah touches 4 different weekdays and lands on a weekend none of of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.

How the Hanukkah date is set

Hanukkah belongs to the jewish calendar tradition. 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar; eight days. Movable dates like this are resolved from the underlying calendar rule rather than a fixed Gregorian day, which is why the date moves around the calendar each year. Timekit computes every occurrence in the table below from that same rule, so the dates stay consistent with the rest of the site's calendar tools and update automatically as the years roll forward.

If you want the dates in your own calendar app, use the live countdown above, then jump to the jewish 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.

Hanukkah dates for the next five years

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