How many days until Christmas?
Business days & holidays
Counted in your local timezone, today = day 0 (not counted).
Calculation receipt
- Answer
- 157 days
- Operation
days_between- Inputs
- from: 2026-07-21 · to: 2026-12-25
- Timezone
- UTC
- Convention
- Whole calendar days, midnight to midnight; today = day 0 (not counted)
- Workweek
- mon-fri
- Holiday calendar
- None
- Valid for
- 2026-07-21 in UTC
- Computed at
- 2026-07-21T03:43:57.293Z
- Versions
- engine 1.0.0 · holiday dataset 2026.07.1
- Result ID
Same inputs, engine, and dataset always reproduce this ID; anyone can verify the answer from the fields above.
When is Christmas?
Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25 and is a federal holiday in the United States. It is one of the most widely observed holidays in the world, marking gift-giving, family gatherings, and the heart of the winter holiday season.
Christmas is on Friday, December 25, 2026, which falls on December 25 every year. From today that is 157 days away, about 22 weeks and 3 days, or roughly 113 business days counting Monday–Friday only.
Date details
How long is that?
157 days until Christmas works out to 22 weeks and 3 days, roughly 5 months, 4 days. That puts it in the working week, on day 359 of 365 in 2026.
Business days
This span covers 113 business days (Monday–Friday). Excluding US federal public holidays, that's 108 business days. Holidays in this window: Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.
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Holidays between now and then
These observances fall between today and Friday, December 25, 2026:
How we calculate
- Counts whole calendar days, midnight to midnight, in your local timezone.
- Counting is exclusive: today is day 0 and is not counted.
- Business days are Monday–Friday by default (other working weeks are selectable where offered). The holiday-aware result skips public holidays only for the holiday calendar you choose in the calculator: United States, United Kingdom (England & Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland), Canada, Australia, Uganda, or your own custom list. There is no default calendar; each result names the one used and lists the excluded days.
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More on how this is counted in inclusive vs exclusive day counting.
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