How many days until New Year’s Eve?
A live countdown to December 31 and to the stroke of midnight, in your time zone or any other.
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day
New Year’s Eve is December 31, the last day of the year. The celebrations run through the evening to midnight, when New Year’s Day, January 1, begins. In most countries December 31 is a normal working day, often with shorter hours, while January 1 is a public holiday.
That is why this page shows two countdowns. The big one counts to the start of December 31, the day itself. The midnight countdown under it counts to 00:00 on January 1, the moment the year turns. If you only need the second one, the days until New Year page counts to January 1 alone.
How the countdowns are calculated
Both countdowns use the time zone in the picker, which starts on your device’s own zone. Change it to count down for friends or family abroad: the page converts “midnight on December 31” in that zone into an exact instant and subtracts the current time.
Time zone rules, including daylight saving time, come from your browser’s time zone database. In December, places such as New Zealand and most of Australia are on summer time, and the page already accounts for it, so the hours shown are real elapsed hours.
When midnight arrives around the world
The new year does not arrive everywhere at once. The first inhabited places to reach midnight are Kiribati’s Line Islands, at UTC+14. New Zealand follows an hour later, then Australia’s east coast, Asia, Europe and the Americas. The last are American Samoa and Niue, at UTC−11, about 25 hours after the first.
The list in the countdown shows six cities in that order. Each line says how long until midnight there and what time that will be in the time zone you picked. For example, midnight in Auckland is 11:00 on December 31 in London and 06:00 in New York.
New Year’s Eve for the next five years
| Year | New Year’s Eve, December 31 | New Year’s Day, January 1 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Thursday | Friday |
| 2027 | Friday | Saturday |
| 2028 | Sunday | Monday |
| 2029 | Monday | Tuesday |
| 2030 | Tuesday | Wednesday |
How many days are left in the year?
Add one to the days until New Year’s Eve to include December 31 itself. For the exact figure with hours and a percentage, use the time left in the year calculator or see how much of the year has passed.
Put the New Year countdown on your Lock Screen
- Install Left on your iPhone and open Ahead.
- Tap Add a date ahead, choose New date and name it New Year’s Eve. Set Starts to December 31 and Repeat to Yearly.
- Touch and hold your Lock Screen, tap Customize, add Left’s Ahead widget and choose the date.
The widget counts down by itself every day, with no need to open a website. The Lock Screen widget guide covers each step, and the countdown widget page shows the other styles.
Read more
- The best countdown widgets for iPhone
- What is year progress?
- Add a widget to your iPhone Lock Screen
Questions
Is New Year’s Eve on December 31 in every country?
Yes, wherever the calendar year follows the Gregorian calendar, which almost every country uses for civil dates. Many cultures also celebrate a new year of their own on another date, such as Lunar New Year, Nowruz or Rosh Hashanah. This page counts to December 31.
What time does the new year start in New Zealand compared with New York?
In December, Auckland is on daylight saving time at UTC+13 and New York is at UTC−5, so New Zealand reaches midnight 18 hours earlier: at 06:00 on December 31 in New York.
How many days are left in the year?
Add one to the days until New Year’s Eve to include December 31 itself. The time left in the year calculator gives the exact figure down to the second.
Why does the countdown on my phone show a different number?
Three things cause most differences: the time zone (this page uses the one in the picker), the target (the start of December 31 or midnight at its end), and rounding. A widget that shows whole days can round differently from the live counter here, which also shows the hours left.
Keep the countdown in sight.
Add the date to Ahead in Left and a widget counts it down on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch, with a reminder before the day.
Scan or search "Left" on the App Store.