Days Until Calculator
How many days until your big day? Pick an event or a date and watch the countdown tick, with weeks, working days and hours left. Advanced adds time zones, your weekend and holidays.
Count down to
Left blank, it counts to the start of the day (00:00).
When the wait started, for a progress bar.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain rest Friday and Saturday; the UAE moved to Saturday and Sunday in 2022.
Dates as YYYY-MM-DD. They come off the working days.
How your countdown is worked out
Count the calendar days, group them into weeks and working days, then the exact time left.
- 1
Today and the date
Mon 19 Oct 2026 →
Fri 1 Jan 2027 - 2
Count the days
1 Jan − 19 Oct =
74 days - 3
Weeks and working days
74 ÷ 7 = 10w 4d
54 working days - 4
Down to the hour
73d 3h 11m left
= 1,755 hours
Read more: how the days, weekdays and time zones are counted
The day count includes today but not the day you are counting to, the way people usually count "days until" (it is the same as the number of sleeps). Tick Count the day itself too in Advanced if the day should count, for example the first day of a holiday or the last day of a notice period. The live clock is different: it counts the exact time left from this second to the time you chose, so it is usually a little less than the day count.
The formula
days until = the date − today (+ 1 to count the day itself)
weeks = days ÷ 7, with the days left over
working days = days − weekend days − holidays on working days
time left = the date and time − now, split into days, hours, minutes and seconds
year gone = (day of the year − 1 + part of today) ÷ days in the year
Worked example
At 12:00 noon on Sunday 11 October 2026, counting down to New Year at midnight on Friday 1 January 2027: there are 21 days left in October (11 to 31, counting today), 30 in November and 31 in December, so 21 + 30 + 31 = 82 days. That is 11 weeks and 5 days (11 × 7 = 77, 82 − 77 = 5), or 2 months and 21 days. With a Saturday and Sunday weekend, 23 of the 82 days are weekend days, so there are 82 − 23 = 59 working days; with a Friday and Saturday weekend there are 22 weekend days and 60 working days.
The exact time left is 81 days and 12 hours, because half of today has gone: 81 × 24 + 12 = 1,956 hours, which is 1,956 × 60 = 117,360 minutes, or 117,360 × 60 = 7,041,600 seconds. 11 October is day 284 of 365, so (283 + 0.5) ÷ 365 = 77.7% of 2026 has gone, with 81 days left after today.
Quick picks
| Pick | Date it counts to |
|---|---|
| New Year | 1 January, 00:00 |
| Valentine's Day | 14 February |
| Halloween | 31 October |
| Christmas | 25 December |
| New Year's Eve | 31 December |
| My birthday | Your next birthday (28 February in other years for a 29 February birthday) |
| The weekend | The first day of your weekend: Saturday, or Friday for a Fri + Sat weekend |
| End of month, quarter, year | The last day at 23:59 (quarters end 31 March, 30 June, 30 September, 31 December) |
| Leap day | The next real 29 February |
| Friday the 13th | The next month whose 13th is a Friday |
Each pick moves on to the next time it comes round, and a shared link to a pick keeps working next year. If the day is today, it says so. Holidays that move each year, such as Easter, Diwali or Eid, aren't in the list because their dates depend on the moon or local announcements; type the date in yourself.
Time zones and daylight saving
With My time zone the countdown uses your device's clock. Pick another zone in Advanced and the date and time are read as local time there, so New Year in Sydney arrives many hours before New Year in New York, and the result tells you what time that is for you. Daylight saving changes are handled by your browser's time zone data. The day count always uses today's date where you are.
Weekend patterns checked 11 October 2026.
Common questions
How do I work out how many days until a date?
Take today's date away from the date you are waiting for. From Sunday 11 October 2026 to New Year's Day 2027 is 82 days, or 11 weeks and 5 days. This calculator does it for you and keeps a live count of the hours, minutes and seconds left too.
Does the count include today?
The day count includes today but not the day itself, the way most people count days until something, so it matches the number of sleeps. Tick 'Count the day itself too' in Advanced to add one. The live clock counts the exact time left to the minute you choose.
How many working days are left until a date?
Count the days, then take away the weekend days and any holidays. From 11 October 2026 to 1 January 2027 there are 59 working days with a Saturday and Sunday weekend, or 60 with a Friday and Saturday weekend. Add your own holidays in Advanced.
Can I count down to a time in another time zone?
Yes. In Advanced, pick the time zone the event happens in, such as New Year at midnight in Sydney or a launch at 9:00 in New York. The countdown runs to that exact moment and shows what time it will be where you are.
What if the date has already passed?
Then it counts up instead and shows how long it has been since that date, in days, weeks, working days and the exact days, hours, minutes and seconds. Quick picks like Christmas always move on to the next time they come round.
How is a 29 February birthday counted?
In years without a 29 February, the birthday countdown uses 28 February, which is the usual way to keep a leap-day birthday. The Leap day quick pick waits for the next real 29 February instead, which is 29 February 2028.
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