How many days until New Year?
New Year's Day is fixed at 1 January. The count below names the time zone it used and whether today is included.
There are 147 days until New Year's Day, Friday 1 January 2027.
Days until New Year
147 days remaining. Updating once a second.
- Date
- Weeks
- 21
- Hours
- 3,528
- Sleeps
- 147
Counting to midnight at the start of Friday 1 January 2027 in UTC (UTC, UTC+00:00). Today is not counted.
| Place | Offset now | Days until New Year |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney, Australia | UTC+10:00 | 146 |
| Auckland, New Zealand | UTC+12:00 | 146 |
| Delhi, India | UTC+05:30 | 147 |
| London, United Kingdom | UTC+01:00 | 147 |
| New York, United States | UTC-04:00 | 147 |
| Los Angeles, United States | UTC-07:00 | 147 |
Counted in UTC (GMT), not counting today.
Change either and every figure above updates. Most date tools pick a zone and a counting rule silently, which is why two sites can answer the same question with different numbers.
New Year 2027 at a glance
| Date | Friday 1 January 2027 |
|---|---|
| Days to go | 147 |
| Weeks | 21 |
| Hours | 3,528 |
| New Year's Eve | Thursday 31 December 2026 |
| First to reach it | Pacific/Kiritimati (UTC+14) |
| Last to reach it | Pacific/Midway (UTC-11) |
| Spread | 25 hours |
Show the working
Today is Friday 7 August 2026 and New Year's Day is Friday 1 January 2027. Subtracting one calendar date from the other gives 147 days.
That count treats both as calendar dates and does not count today, which is what almost everyone means by "days until". Counting today as well gives 148. Measuring the clock time still to run gives 146 days plus the hours on the readout, because part of today has already gone.
All three are correct answers to slightly different questions, and it is exactly why pages ranking for this search return numbers that differ by one or two. The readout names the basis it used and the control under it changes both.
New Year's Day is fixed at 1 January.
New Year happens more than once
Every other holiday happens on a date. New Year happens on a moment, and there is one for every distinct offset the world is keeping.
Read from the time zone database as this page was built, the first inhabited place to reach 1 January 2027 is Pacific/Kiritimati at UTC+14, and the last is Pacific/Midway at UTC-11. That is 25 hours apart. Baker Island and Howland Island sit an hour further back again at UTC-12, but nobody lives there.
Two things follow. A countdown to New Year is meaningless until it names a clock: anchored to London it hits zero while Sydney is already hours into the new year and while New York still has hours to go. And the offsets are not all whole hours, so in some places the year turns at quarter past or half past rather than on the hour.
It is always the same weekday as Christmas
25 December and the following 1 January are exactly seven days apart, so they always share a weekday. Christmas Day 2026 falls on Friday, and so does New Year's Day 2027. If you know one, you know the other.
Note the direction: it is the Christmas one week earlier, not the one that follows.
How this date is set
New Year's Day is 1 January, and the new year arrives 26 times, not once. Kiritimati in the Line Islands crosses midnight first at UTC+14; Baker Island and Howland Island cross last at UTC−12. The countdown here is to midnight where you are, which is the only version of the question with a single answer.
New Year's Day in the next ten years
| Year | Date | Weekday | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 1 January | Friday | 147 |
| 2028 | 1 January | Saturday | 512 |
| 2029 | 1 January | Monday | 878 |
| 2030 | 1 January | Tuesday | 1,243 |
| 2031 | 1 January | Wednesday | 1,608 |
| 2032 | 1 January | Thursday | 1,973 |
| 2033 | 1 January | Saturday | 2,339 |
| 2034 | 1 January | Sunday | 2,704 |
| 2035 | 1 January | Monday | 3,069 |
| 2036 | 1 January | Tuesday | 3,434 |
Dates around New Year
| Occasion | Falls on | Days away |
|---|---|---|
| New Year's Eve | Thursday 31 December 2026 | 146 |
| New Year's Day | Friday 1 January 2027 | 147 |
| First Monday of the year | Monday 4 January 2027 | 150 |
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Questions
How many days until New Year?
147 days, counting to midnight at the start of Friday 1 January 2027 in the time zone shown on the readout.
Where does the new year start first?
Pacific/Kiritimati, at UTC+14, computed from the time zone database rather than remembered. It reaches midnight before anywhere else on Earth.
Where does the new year arrive last?
Baker Island and Howland Island at UTC-12, though neither is inhabited. The last inhabited place is Pacific/Midway at UTC-11, 25 hours after the first.
Why do different countdowns to New Year show different times?
Because they are counting to different midnights, spread across a 25 hour window. A countdown that does not name its time zone cannot be checked.
What weekday is New Year's Day on?
Friday, 1 January 2027. It is always the same weekday as the Christmas Day one week earlier, because 25 December and the following 1 January are exactly seven days apart.