Days until…

Live countdowns to the dates everyone asks about.

Days Until Christmas The live count to 25 December — down to the second. Days Until New Year What remains of this year, ticking away live. Days Until Halloween Counting down to 31 October, live. Days Until Thanksgiving Counting to the fourth Thursday of November. Days Until Easter Counting to Easter Sunday — the movable feast, computed properly. Days Until Valentine's Day Counting down to 14 February. Days Until Mother's Day Counting to the second Sunday of May. Days Until Father's Day Counting to the third Sunday of June. Days Until St. Patrick's Day Counting down to 17 March. Days Until Summer Counting to 1 June — meteorological summer in the northern hemisphere. Days Until Friday The countdown to the weekend, updated live.

Every countdown here runs live in your browser — days, hours, minutes, and seconds to midnight at the start of the day, in your own time zone. Moving feasts are computed with their real calendar rules: Easter with the Gregorian computus, Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday of November, Mother's and Father's Day by their Sunday positions — the same unit-tested date engine as the rest of the site, never a hard-coded list.

Counting to a date that isn't listed? The general countdown calculator takes any date and label you like.

Fixed dates, moving dates, and why the difference matters

Some of these occasions never move: Christmas is always 25 December, Halloween always 31 October, Valentine's Day always 14 February. For those, the only thing that changes year to year is the weekday, which advances by one each ordinary year and two across a leap year. That single fact is usually what people are checking when they count — whether the day lands awkwardly midweek, or usefully against a weekend.

Others are defined by a rule rather than a date, and cannot be looked up from last year's calendar. Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November, so it moves between the 22nd and the 28th. Mother's Day and Father's Day are Sunday positions within their months. Easter is the most complex of all, set by the ecclesiastical computus agreed at Nicaea and able to fall anywhere across a thirty-five day window from 22 March to 25 April — dragging Lent, Good Friday, Ascension and Pentecost with it, and with them a large part of the European school calendar.

The same occasion, different dates around the world

Several of these are not one holiday but several sharing a name. Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May across the United States, South Africa, Australia and much of the world, but the United Kingdom and Ireland keep Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday of Lent, usually in March, and much of the Arab world marks it on the spring equinox. Father's Day is the third Sunday in June in the Anglophone world and 19 March across much of Catholic Europe and Latin America. Thanksgiving is November in the United States and October in Canada. Easter falls on a different Sunday for Orthodox churches, which follow the same rule against the Julian calendar.

Each countdown here states the convention it uses. If you have family in more than one country, it is worth noting both dates rather than assuming the one you grew up with is the one that applies.

How the countdown handles your clock

Every countdown runs to midnight at the start of the day, in your device's own time zone. That means two people in different countries can legitimately see different numbers for the same occasion, and both are correct where they are standing. It also means daylight-saving transitions make one day a year 23 hours long and another 25, which a countdown measured in hours will show and one measured in whole days will not.

Nothing you do here is transmitted anywhere. The date arithmetic runs on your device, using the same unit-tested calendar engine as the rest of the site — leap years by the full rule, including the century exceptions that catch hand-written date code every hundred years.