Countdown to Date
See exactly how long is left until a birthday, holiday, trip or deadline. Pick a date (and a time if you like) and watch the live countdown of days, hours, minutes and seconds.
Quick picks
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How to use countdown to date
- 1Pick a quick option such as Christmas or New Year's Day, or enter your own date.
- 2Optionally add a time and a name for the event.
- 3Watch the live countdown in days, hours, minutes and seconds, plus weeks and days.
- 4Come back later — the countdown is remembered in this browser. Press Reset to clear it.
About this tool
The countdown measures from your device's current time to the date and time you choose, in your own time zone. With no time entered it counts down to midnight at the start of that date. It updates every second.
Holiday quick picks always jump to the next occurrence — choose Christmas on December 26 and it counts to next year's. When the moment arrives, the page tells you it's here.
Your countdown is stored only in this browser's local storage, so it's still there when you come back on the same device, and nothing is sent to a server. To count the days between two dates, including past ones, use the Date Difference Calculator; for a short minutes-and-seconds countdown with an alarm, use the Online Timer.
Frequently asked questions
Choose the Christmas quick pick and the countdown shows the days, hours, minutes and seconds until December 25.