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New Year Countdown: How Many Days Until New Year?

A live countdown to midnight on 1 January in days, hours, minutes and seconds.

New Year’s Day is 1 January. This live countdown shows how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left until midnight on New Year’s Eve in your own time zone. New Year’s Day 2027 falls on a Friday; on 1 December 2026 it is 31 days away.

Updated October 28, 2026

INTERACTIVE TOOL

Countdown

New Year’s Day

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Counted to midnight at the start of New Year’s Day, using the clock and time zone of your device.

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QUICK ANSWER

New Year’s Day is 1 January. New Year’s Day 2027 falls on a Friday and New Year’s Day 2028 on a Saturday, so New Year’s Eve 2026 is Thursday, 31 December. The countdown above shows the time left until midnight, the moment the new year starts, in your own time zone.

THE METHOD

How it works

Days left = the date of the holiday minus today’s date. The live counter subtracts the current time from midnight at the start of the holiday in your time zone, then splits the difference into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Christmas is 25 December, Halloween is 31 October and US Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.

PUT IT TO USE

Example calculation

On 28 October 2026, Halloween (31 October) is 3 days away, Thanksgiving (26 November) 29 days and Christmas Day (25 December) 58 days: 3 days left in October, 30 in November and 25 in December. 58 days is 8 weeks and 2 days.

How many weeks until New Year?

Divide the days left by 7. On 1 December 2026 there are 31 days until 1 January 2027, which is 4 weeks and 3 days; on Christmas Day there are 7 days to go.

When does the new year start around the world?

The first places to reach midnight are on UTC+14, such as Kiribati’s Line Islands, and the last are on UTC−12, 26 hours later. London reaches midnight 5 hours before New York, and Tokyo 14 hours before New York while New York is on standard time. To see the exact time in any city, use the time zone converter.

Is New Year’s Day a public holiday?

Yes in most countries. In the United States it is one of the 11 federal holidays set by law (5 U.S.C. 6103). When 1 January falls on a Saturday, as it does in 2028, federal employees get the holiday on the Friday before, 31 December 2027.

In short

How to use the New Year Countdown

Open the page: the countdown starts at once from your device’s clock.
Read the days, hours, minutes and seconds left until midnight on 1 January.
Check the weeks and hours left in the second row.
Use the table below for the day of the week New Year’s Day falls on in later years.

Quick reference

New Year’s Day: dates for the next 10 years

Year	Date	Day of the week
2027	January 1, 2027	Friday
2028	January 1, 2028	Saturday
2029	January 1, 2029	Monday
2030	January 1, 2030	Tuesday
2031	January 1, 2031	Wednesday
2032	January 1, 2032	Thursday
2033	January 1, 2033	Saturday
2034	January 1, 2034	Sunday
2035	January 1, 2035	Monday
2036	January 1, 2036	Tuesday

Screenshot of the New Year Countdown on this site with a worked example filled in — Screenshot: the New Year Countdown with the example values entered.

Accuracy

How we checked this

We compared 6 results from this calculator with values we worked out independently, using exact decimal arithmetic and the published definitions, on October 28, 2026. 6 of 6 matched to the precision shown.

Input	Independent value	This page	Match
New Year’s Day 2027	January 1, 2027, Friday	January 1, 2027, Friday	Yes
New Year’s Day 2028	January 1, 2028, Saturday	January 1, 2028, Saturday	Yes
New Year’s Day 2029	January 1, 2029, Monday	January 1, 2029, Monday	Yes
New Year’s Day 2030	January 1, 2030, Tuesday	January 1, 2030, Tuesday	Yes
New Year’s Day 2032	January 1, 2032, Thursday	January 1, 2032, Thursday	Yes
New Year’s Day 2035	January 1, 2035, Monday	January 1, 2035, Monday	Yes

From the source

New Year’s Day, January 1.

Source: 5 U.S.C. 6103: Holidays (Cornell Law School LII)

Sources

GOOD TO KNOW

Frequently asked questions

What day is New Year’s Day 2027?

Friday, 1 January 2027. New Year’s Eve is Thursday, 31 December 2026.

How many days until New Year from Christmas?

7 days: from 25 December to 1 January.

What day is New Year’s Day 2028?

Saturday, 1 January 2028. The US federal holiday is observed on Friday, 31 December 2027.

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