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title: "Countdown Timer Calculator — Days Until Any Event"
description: "Live countdown timer to any future date and time. Days, hours, minutes, seconds until Christmas, New Year, a birthday or deadline. Notes cultural counting conventions."
url: "https://worldcalculators.org/calculators/countdown/"
canonical: "https://worldcalculators.org/calculators/countdown/"
---

# Countdown Timer Calculator

Live countdown timer to any future date and time. Days, hours, minutes, seconds until Christmas, New Year, a birthday or deadline. Notes cultural counting conventions.

## Quick answer

Select a preset (New Year, Christmas, Summer solstice) or enter any future date and time. The countdown starts immediately and updates every second in real time.

## Frequently Asked Questions

Chinese New Year is based on the lunisolar calendar, which follows the cycles of both the Moon and the Sun. The date varies between January 21 and February 20 on the Gregorian calendar. 2025 is the Year of the Snake (Jan 29), 2026 is the Year of the Horse (Feb 17).
Exclusive counting (most common in English-speaking countries): if today is the 1st and the event is on the 10th, that is 9 days away. Inclusive counting: the same span is 10 days. Japanese legal periods use inclusive counting. Inclusive counting is also used in music: an octave covers 8 notes counting inclusively from C to C.

Source: https://worldcalculators.org/calculators/countdown/
Markdown mirror of the HTML page. Prefer this URL for RAG; the interactive calculator still lives on the HTML page.