Days Until
A live countdown to any date, with Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter and nine more holidays worked out by rule so the page is right in every year. The answer comes as days, weeks and days, hours and the day of the week, with working days and weekends alongside, and a clock under it counts down the hours, minutes and seconds to midnight on the day.
Days untilReading today's date.
Holidays come from rules, not a list of dates. Christmas, Halloween and New Year are fixed; Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, Mother’s Day the second Sunday of May, Memorial Day the last Monday of May; Easter is the Western date from the Gregorian formula; Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. The moveable ones follow the US calendar. For a span between any two dates use the date calculator; for hours and minutes between two moments, the duration calculator.
Common questions
- Does the count include today?
- The count is the whole days from today to the date, the way most people count: on Christmas Eve the page reads 1 day, and on Christmas Day it reads Today with a clock showing how much of the day is left. Today itself is not counted as a day to wait through, and the date you are counting to is. The line under the result says so.
- How are working days counted?
- Working days are the Mondays to Fridays after today, up to and including the date, so working days plus weekend days always add up to the day count. Public holidays are not known here, so a Christmas countdown counts Christmas Day itself as a working day if it falls on a weekday. For a count with US federal or UK bank holidays removed, use the business days calculator.
- Which time zone is the countdown in?
- Yours. Today is read from your device's calendar, so the day count changes at your local midnight, and the hours, minutes and seconds count down to midnight at the start of the date where you are. Someone in another time zone may see a different number for an hour or two either side of midnight, which is the correct answer for where they are.
- How are the holidays worked out?
- From rules, not a list of dates. Christmas, Halloween, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Independence Day and Boxing Day are fixed. Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, Mother's Day the second Sunday of May, Father's Day the third Sunday of June, Labor Day the first Monday of September and Memorial Day the last Monday of May, all on the US calendar. Easter is the Western date from the Gregorian formula. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. Because each date is computed, the table of next occurrences is right whatever year you open it in.
- What happens once the holiday has passed?
- Picking a holiday always gives its next occurrence: this year's if it is still ahead or is today, otherwise next year's. If you type a date that has passed, the page counts back and reads "days ago", and for a holiday it offers the next one in a single press.
- Does it remember the date I chose?
- Yes, in this browser only. A chosen holiday is remembered as the holiday, so it moves to the next year on its own; any other date is remembered as typed. Nothing is sent anywhere. A holiday page such as /days-until/christmas always opens on its own holiday.
Days are counted on the civil calendar from today in your time zone, and holidays are computed from their rules (Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, Easter from the Gregorian formula), so the countdown is right in every year. Hours and seconds tick from your device's clock.