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Holiday Countdowns

Holiday countdowns for 32 holidays and seasons, soonest first, plus your own wedding, birthday or retirement. Each one shows the days, hours, minutes and seconds in your time zone, the date and weekday, and the dates for the coming years.

The next holidays to count down to

Bar chart of the days until the next eight holidays and seasons as of October 17, 2026: Halloween 14 days, Veterans Day 25 days, Thanksgiving 40 days, Black Friday 41 days, Cyber Monday 44 days, Winter 65 days, Christmas Eve 68 days, Christmas 69 days.
The next eight days on the calendar as of October 17, 2026, when this page was built. Each countdown counts from today.

Wedding, birthday and retirement countdowns

Countdowns to US holidays and observances

Countdowns to the first day of each season

Seasons are astronomical and for the Northern Hemisphere: they start at the equinox or solstice.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday countdowns

How the holiday countdowns get their dates

A countdown is only as good as its date. Fixed holidays such as Christmas and Halloween are easy, but many holidays move: federal law (5 U.S.C. 6103) puts Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November and Memorial Day on the last Monday of May.

Easter follows the church's full moon on or after March 21, as the US Naval Observatory explains, so the Easter countdown and the days counted from it move by up to five weeks. The dates here are calculated from those rules for any year, not copied from a list, and the seasons are timed to the minute of the equinox or solstice.

The numbers you see when a page opens were correct on the day the page was built. A moment later the timer switches to your device's clock, counts to midnight at the start of the day in your time zone, and keeps ticking. When a day has passed, its countdown moves on to next year without anyone touching it.

Every countdown can be added to your calendar, shared as a link or an image, or embedded on your own site. For the date alone, with the weekday and a ten-year table, see the holiday dates page; to count to any other day, create a countdown of your own.