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Days until New Year

A live countdown to 1 January, with the days left in the year. Free, with no account or uploads.

Count down to New Year

The count runs to your own midnight on 1 January.

Dates follow the Gregorian calendar back to year 1, as computers do; before 1582 (1752 in Britain and its colonies) records were kept in the Julian calendar, so old dates may differ from what was written at the time.

How it works and help
Worked out in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere; a country's holidays are read from this site's own files.

A little help along the way

Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

  1. Say what you want to knowHow long between two dates is the usual. The others count down to an event, work out an age, move a date, count working days or give a week number.
  2. Choose the datesToday is filled in. Change either date, or type an event such as Christmas or my birthday 14 March.
  3. Read the answerIt comes first in words, then in days and weeks, with the rule it followed under it.
  4. Keep itCopy the answer, add a day to your calendar, or copy a link that carries the date.

Questions people ask

When does the countdown end?
At midnight at the start of 1 January on your device's clock, which is your own local midnight.
Is this the number of days left in the year?
Yes: the days until 1 January are the days left in this year, counting today.
Can I share the countdown?
Copy a link puts the date in the address after #, which is never sent to a server, so the countdown opens for whoever you send it to.

This page is the Date calculator, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the Date calculator's own page.

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