Holiday & event countdown
Count down to Christmas, New Year or your own event. Share a link without an account.
Create your own event
Days are complete 24-hour periods. After the target, the timer counts upward. Summer and winter dates are approximate for the northern hemisphere.
The link contains your event and message in readable form. Anyone with it can read them. The tool does not save your event or send it to a server; the site’s usual privacy and advertising controls still apply.
Your christmas countdown, ready to share
Choose Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or another holiday to see the next occurrence in your device’s local time zone. The list follows the page language: English includes US Thanksgiving, Polish includes Fat Thursday, and German includes Advent. Language is a useful preset, not a claim about where you live.
For a birthday, trip or party, enter a name, date, time and time zone. Add an optional emoji and a short message, then start the countdown timer. Check the displayed target before sharing. The same link opens the same instant for everyone, even when recipients live abroad.
How moving holidays are calculated
Western Easter uses the Meeus/Butcher Gregorian calculation. Orthodox Easter uses the Julian calculation plus thirteen days for the supported years 1900–2099; Ukrainian, Russian, Greek and Romanian pages select this rule. First Advent is four Sundays before Christmas, excluding Christmas Day itself. US Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November. Fat Thursday is 52 days before Western Easter; Rose Monday is 48 days before it.
Days until christmas and time zones
A displayed day means twenty-four elapsed hours, not a calendar square. A local day crossing daylight saving time can last twenty-three or twenty-five hours. Nonexistent local times are rejected, and repeated times require a choice. Summer and winter use approximate northern-hemisphere dates, 21 June and 21 December, rather than precise astronomical instants.
Frequently asked questions
Does Christmas mean 24 or 25 December?
Choose Christmas Eve for 24 December or Christmas Day for 25 December. Both presets target local midnight at the start of that date.
What happens when the event arrives?
The timer shows Today on the target date after the target time, then keeps counting upward. Selecting a holiday again finds today or its next annual occurrence.
Can I share without signing in?
Yes. Share creates a link containing the event in the fragment after #. Copy the visible link manually if clipboard access is unavailable.
Is my message private?
Anyone with the link can read it. It is not encrypted. Avoid sensitive details; the countdown itself does not upload or store your event.
Will an inactive tab lose time?
Each update compares the target with the device clock. Returning to a suspended tab recalculates the remaining time; an inaccurate device clock still affects the result.
Can I put it on a television?
Use Full screen where supported. Large digits also work in a normal browser window, with dark theme and no motion effects.
How do I count days between two dates?
Use the Date & Time Toolkit linked below for date differences and working days. This page focuses on a live countdown to one event.