How Many Days Until Christmas 2026?
Christmas 2026 falls on Friday, December 25.
The next Christmas Day is Friday, 25 December 2026 — the timer below counts down to midnight as the day begins. The date never moves: 25 December is a statutory day off in 30 of the 36 places on the table below, and the six that work through it are listed there too.
Friday, December 25
Dates year by year
| Year | Date | Day | Places observing | Longest break |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 25, 2025 | Thursday | 30 | 1 days |
| 2026 | December 25, 2026 | Friday | 30 | 1 days |
| 2027 | December 25, 2027 | Saturday | 30 | 2 days |
| 2028 | December 25, 2028 | Monday | 30 | 1 days |
Who gets the day off
Every row is derived from that country’s official calendar on this site, so the day counts include substitute days and government bridge days exactly as gazetted.
| Country / region | Called | Date | Days off |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Christmas DayOne of the eleven federal holidays: federal offices, the postal service and the stock market close. When 25 December falls on a Saturday, federal employees observe it on the Friday before — which is why this row shows two days in 2027. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| United Kingdom | Christmas DayA bank holiday across the whole United Kingdom. When it falls on a weekend the day is moved to the next working Monday — 27 December 2027 — and 26 December is a separate bank holiday of its own, Boxing Day. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Canada | Christmas DayA federal statutory holiday, so banks, airlines and other federally regulated employers close across the country; provincial employees depend on their own province. Boxing Day is a second statutory holiday, and in 2027 both days move to 27 and 28 December. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Australia | Christmas DayChristmas and Boxing Day are the two national public holidays that close the year. Either one falling on a weekend is observed on the next weekday, so 2027 puts Christmas on Monday 27 December and Boxing Day on Tuesday 28. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| New Zealand | Christmas DayAn absolute holiday under the Holidays Act 2003: if it falls on a Saturday or Sunday it is transferred to the following Monday, and Boxing Day follows on Tuesday. That is the whole of 2027 for New Zealand — 27 and 28 December. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Ireland | Christmas DayChristmas Day and Saint Stephen’s Day (26 December) are both public holidays, and Ireland does not transfer either to a weekday — in 2027 they sit on a Saturday and a Sunday, and nothing is given back. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Germany | Christmas DayGermany gives two days: 25 December and the second day of Christmas on 26 December, which our English labels for the German calendar carry as Boxing Day. Both are statutory in every federal state, and neither is ever moved. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Austria | Christmas DayChristmas Day and St. Stephen’s Day on 26 December are both statutory holidays, and the season runs on to Epiphany on 6 January, also a public holiday — as it does in Italy, Spain and Sweden. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| France | Christmas DayOne of the fériés in the Labour Code, and it stays on 25 December even in 2027, when the day is a Saturday — France does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend, and 26 December is a working day. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Italy | Christmas Day (Natale)Italy gazettes three days of the season: Natale on 25 December, Santo Stefano on 26 December, and Epiphany — La Befana — on 6 January. None of them is ever moved to a weekday. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Spain | Christmas DayOne of the nationally fixed holidays. Spain gives no second day on 26 December, and its Christmas season ends on 6 January, Epiphany / Three Kings Day, when the gifts traditionally arrive. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Portugal | Christmas DayA public holiday on 25 December and nothing beside it: 24 and 26 December are working days in our Portuguese calendar, and the day is never transferred when it falls on a weekend. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Belgium | Christmas DayOne of the ten statutory days in the civil-service calendar. Like France, Belgium keeps the date itself when 25 December falls on a weekend, so 2027 gives no day back. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Netherlands | Christmas Day (Eerste Kerstdag)Eerste Kerstdag on 25 December and Second Christmas Day on 26 December are both holidays, and the Netherlands has no transfer rule at all — in 2027 they land on a Saturday and a Sunday and stay there. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Sweden | Christmas Day (Juldagen)Christmas Day (Juldagen) and the Second Day of Christmas (Annandag jul) are red days under Lag (1989:253), the same statute that fixes Good Friday and Easter Monday. Sweden never moves a red day off a weekend, so a Saturday Christmas in 2027 is simply a Saturday. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Mexico | Christmas Day (25 de diciembre)A mandated day off for every worker under Article 74 of the Federal Labour Law, so the entitlement is national rather than customary. Mexico gives no second day, and 24 December is a working day. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Brazil | Christmas Day (Natal)A national religious holiday, one of the few dates guaranteed in every state. Brazil’s calendar carries no Boxing Day equivalent: 24 and 26 December are working days. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Argentina | Christmas Day (25 de diciembre)A fixed, non-transferable national holiday under Ley 27.399 — one of the two immovable religious dates on the Argentine list, the other being the Immaculate Conception on 8 December. Argentina has no Boxing Day. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| South Africa | Christmas DayChristmas Day and the Day of Goodwill on 26 December — South Africa’s renamed Boxing Day — are both public holidays. Under the Public Holidays Act a holiday that falls on a Sunday does not move: the Monday that follows is a public holiday in its own right, which is why 2027 adds a Monday beside the Day of Goodwill but nothing for Christmas, since 25 December 2027 is a Saturday. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Kenya | Christmas DayChristmas Day and Boxing Day are public holidays in the Public Holidays Act schedule; when Boxing Day falls on a Sunday it is observed on the Monday, as in 2027. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Nigeria | Christmas DayTwo federal public holidays close the year — Christmas Day and Boxing Day — and Nigeria’s list keeps both on their own dates even in 2027, when they land on a Saturday and a Sunday. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Ghana | Christmas DayChristmas Day and Boxing Day are statutory public holidays, and Ghana adds an observed Boxing Day when the week needs one — Monday 28 December 2026 in our list. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Philippines | Christmas DayThe Philippines gazettes 24 December (Christmas Eve) and 25 December as separate holidays every year, and December also brings Rizal Day on the 30th and the Last Day of the Year on the 31st. This row counts only the 25th, which is Christmas. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Singapore | Christmas DayOne of the gazetted public holidays, and the anchor of Singapore’s December retail and travel season. It sits on 25 December itself in every published year, 2027’s Saturday included. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Malaysia | Christmas DayA federal public holiday, and the only Christian day on Malaysia’s federal list. In 2027, when 25 December is a Saturday, our calendar also gazettes a separate “Christmas Day (replacement)” on Monday 27 December. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| South Korea | Christmas DayA public holiday in Korea’s Holidays Act, which makes it one of the rare Christian holidays written into an East Asian statute — neither China nor Japan lists the day at all. 2027 brings a second row: with 25 December on a Saturday, a “Substitute Holiday (Christmas)” is added on Monday 27 December. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| India | Christmas DayA central gazetted holiday, so government offices close. Christmas Eve sits on the restricted-holiday annexure, where each employee elects individual leave and the office stays open — which is why it never enters the day counts here. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Indonesia | Christmas DayA national holiday on the joint ministerial decree. The same decree routinely bolts a cuti bersama (collective-leave) bridge day onto the season — 26 December 2025, then 24 December in 2026 and 2027 — and this row deliberately counts only the statutory day itself. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Hong Kong General holiday only | Christmas DayA general holiday under the General Holidays Ordinance. On the narrower statutory list Christmas appears twice but never under this name: as “Winter Solstice or Christmas Day”, an employer option in the second half of December, and as “the first weekday after Christmas Day”, the territory’s Boxing-Day equivalent. Neither is counted here. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| Macau General holiday only | Christmas DayA public holiday, with Christmas Eve on 24 December gazetted separately beside it. Macau also adds a compensatory rest day when Christmas falls on a weekend — Monday 27 December 2027 — but Christmas is not among the ten mandatory holidays every worker must receive. | December 25, 2026 | 1days |
| China | Not a public holidayChristmas appears on no State Council holiday list. The last public holiday of the year in mainland China is National Day in early October, and the next day off after 25 December is New Year’s Day on 1 January. | December 25, 2026 | Working day |
| Japan | Not a public holidayThe Public Holiday Act (祝日法) lists no Christian holiday, so 25 December is an ordinary working day — busy for the gift trade, empty of any legal entitlement. The next holiday in our Japanese calendar is New Year’s Day on 1 January. | December 25, 2026 | Working day |
| Thailand | Not a public holidayNo Thai gazette lists Christmas. Thailand does close for 31 December (New Year’s Eve) and 1 January, and its other December holidays are royal observances on 5 and 10 December — none of them this festival, so the pay and closure rules that follow a Thai public holiday do not apply. | December 25, 2026 | Working day |
| Vietnam | Not a public holidayVietnam’s statutory list carries no Christmas entry — only New Year’s Day around it. The winter festival that shuts the country is Tết, the lunar New Year, which lands in January or February and gets five days off. | December 25, 2026 | Working day |
| United Arab Emirates | Not a public holidayChristmas is a working day in the United Arab Emirates. The fixed Gregorian civic days in our list are 1 January and the National Day run in early December, while the Islamic holidays move with the moon — and none of them is 25 December. | December 25, 2026 | Working day |
| Saudi Arabia | Not a public holidaySaudi Arabia gazettes Founding Day, the two Eids with Arafat Day, and National Day. None of them falls in December, so 25 December is an ordinary working day across the kingdom. | December 25, 2026 | Working day |
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Saudi ArabiaPlanning around the date
Christmas 2026 falls on a Friday, so the holiday itself opens a three-day weekend (25–27 December); one day of leave on the 24th stretches it to four.
Of the 36 places on the comparison table, six keep offices open on 25 December: China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
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Frequently asked questions
How many days until Christmas 2026?
The timer above counts down to Friday, 25 December 2026, the first moment of Christmas Day. It recomputes against the current date, so the number is always live.
How many sleeps until Christmas 2026?
A "sleep" is one night, tonight included: one for every night between now and Christmas morning. For most of the countdown that is the same number the counter above shows; late on Christmas Eve the timer will already read 0 days while the last sleep — that night — is still ahead of you.
What day of the week is Christmas in 2026 and 2027?
Christmas 2026 is Friday, 25 December, and Christmas 2027 is Saturday, 25 December. The year-by-year table below lists the weekday for every year we publish.
Is Christmas a public holiday in every country?
No. In our data 30 of the 36 places on the table gazette 25 December; six work straight through it — China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The comparison table below shows the exact status per place.
When is the day off actually taken in 2026?
Christmas 2026 falls on a Friday itself, so no place needs a substitute day — every date in the table below is gazetted as published.
How do I add the Christmas dates to my calendar?
Download the free ICS file from the Germany holiday page (the anchor calendar for this page) or the downloads hub, and import it into Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar.