Countdowns — how many days until any holiday
Build your own countdown, or pick a holiday, a season or a day of the week: every event has its own page with a live counter.
Every countdown on this site lives on this page: Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Easter and the four seasons — each one a countdown timer already running toward its date.
Build your own countdown
Counted in your device time zone (). The date stays in this browser — nothing is sent anywhere.
Holidays coming up
| Date | Holiday | When |
|---|---|---|
| 11 November 2026 | Veterans Day | in 9 days |
| 26 November 2026 | Thanksgiving Day | in 24 days |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day | in 53 days |
| 1 January 2027 | New Year's Day | in 60 days |
| 18 January 2027 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | in 77 days |
| 15 February 2027 | Washington's Birthday | in 105 days |
Public holidays by country — any country, any year.
International holidays
Seasons
Days of the week
Popular events
Months of the year
Every event has its own page with one live counter. Annual events roll over to the next year the day after they happen — no page ever goes stale.
How to use Countdowns
Scan the list and open the event you are waiting for. The numbers start immediately — days, hours, minutes and seconds, with nothing to configure. Bookmark the one you check often; every countdown has its own address.
What is on the list
Christmas — December 25, the most watched square on the calendar. New Year — midnight into January 1. Halloween — October 31, for those who plan costumes in August. Easter — a moving date, recalculated for you every year. Spring, summer, autumn and winter — the equinoxes and solstices that start each season.
One countdown timer, many dates
The clockwork behind every page here is identical; only the target changes. That is the difference between this list and an online countdown timer you configure yourself: these targets are preset and maintained, so nobody counts to the wrong year in January or to a stale Easter date.
If your date is not on the list — a birthday, an exam, a flight — set up a timer for a countdown of your own. It counts the same way; it just needs to be told where to aim. A calendar tells you when something happens. A countdown tells you how long you get to look forward to it — or to panic.
Reading the count
A long count is usually shown as days, hours, minutes and seconds. The days figure is the one to plan by; the seconds are there for the last stretch, when a countdown clock stops being a planning tool and becomes an event of its own — think of the final minute of the year. A countdown does not make the wait shorter. It just makes the wait honest.
Countdowns and calendars do different jobs
A calendar answers "when is it?" A countdown answers "how long have I got?" Those feel like the same question and are not. A calendar entry three months away sits quietly and produces no urgency at all; the same date rendered as ninety-one days tends to produce a to-do list. If you already keep a calendar, a countdown is not a duplicate — it is the pressure gauge attached to it.
That is also why countdowns work badly for recurring routine. Weekly meetings do not need a timer. Save them for the dates that come once.
Questions and answers
- Are the numbers live?
- Yes — every count ticks in real time while the page is open. Reload whenever you like; the arithmetic is done fresh each second.
- Do I need a countdown timer app instead?
- Only if you want notifications. For the number itself, a browser tab does the identical job on every device you own, with nothing installed.
- Do moving dates like Easter update themselves?
- Yes. When a holiday's date changes from year to year, the page recalculates the target — you never count toward last year's holiday.