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How many days until Christmas?

Count the sleeps on the paper chain. One link comes off every night, and when the last one is gone, it’s Christmas morning.

59 sleeps until Christmas

The strips are cut and waiting: on December 1 they become the chain, one link for every sleep.

Christmas Day ·

Most Christians celebrate Christmas Day on December 25. Some churches keep it in January instead, and the next page gives the dates for the main churches.

While you wait

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Where our facts come from

  1. Orthodox Church in America, "Lives of the Saints", December 25, 2026, Page date heading "Friday, December 25, 2026"; the feast "The Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ"
  2. Erin Blakemore, "Why some people celebrate Christmas in January", National Geographic, December 26, 2019 (updated December 30, 2022), Intro ("a calendar that differs from the one used by most of the world today"); section "Christianity's great calendar schism" ("By 1923, there was a 13-day difference"), the old-calendar churches' Christmas on January 7