How Many Days Until the Next Holiday?

About this holiday countdown

"How many days until Christmas?" and "when is Easter this year?" are among the most searched questions on the internet every year — asked hundreds of millions of times across December, spring festival seasons and the run-up to Eid and Diwali. People ask because holidays drive real plans: booking flights before prices spike, requesting time off work, ordering gifts, or preparing for religious observance. This tool answers instantly for 68 holidays, with a live countdown that ticks down to the second.

Holiday dates fall into four groups, and the tool handles each differently. Fixed dates like Christmas (December 25) or Pakistan's Independence Day (August 14) never move. Movable Christian feasts orbit Easter Sunday, which is defined as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21 — computed here with the Gregorian computus, the same algorithm churches use. That is why Easter was April 20 in 2025, is April 5 in 2026, and moves to March 28 in 2027, dragging Good Friday, Ash Wednesday and Pentecost with it.

Rule-based holidays follow "nth weekday" laws: US Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, Memorial Day the last Monday of May, Labor Day the first Monday of September. The tool computes these for any year, so the countdown never goes stale. Lunar-calendar festivals — Ramadan, both Eids, Diwali, Holi and the other Hindu festivals — shift against the Gregorian calendar every year and, for Islamic dates, are only confirmed by the physical moon sighting. Their dates here are astronomical forecasts for 2026–2030 and are clearly flagged as approximate.

Beyond curiosity, countdowns are practical planning tools. Flight and hotel prices climb steeply in the final weeks before major holidays, so knowing Christmas is 80 days away — not "sometime soon" — is the difference between a cheap booking and an expensive one. The same applies to requesting time off before colleagues claim the same dates, hitting gift shipping cutoffs, and arranging school-break childcare. For movable feasts the payoff is bigger: because Easter and Eid slide each year, a countdown is the only way to know at a glance whether you have five months or five weeks to prepare.

One more thing the search box teaches you: the same holiday name can mean different dates in different places. Mother's Day in the United States is the second Sunday of May, while Britain's Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent — weeks apart. Orthodox Easter usually (though not always) lands on a different Sunday than Western Easter. Each result here shows region tags so you can tell which tradition a date belongs to, and the search understands common aliases — try "xmas", "turkey day" or "choti eid".

Everything runs 100% in your browser: the holiday database, the Easter computus and the countdown timer are plain JavaScript with no network requests. For date arithmetic between arbitrary dates, see the date calculator, and for the popular "what date is N days from today?" question, read the days-from-today guide.