Days Until New Year's Day 🎆

January 1 and the year that ends the night before

New Year’s Day is January 1 on the Gregorian calendar, the civil calendar used across the US since Britain and its colonies adopted it in 1752 (before that, the legal new year in the colonies began March 25). The famous countdown, though, belongs to December 31 — New Year’s Eve — when the Times Square ball drops at midnight. If this page shows N days until New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve is N − 1 days away.

Midnight also arrives by time zone: the US East Coast celebrates three hours before the West Coast, and by the time it’s midnight in New York, it has already been January 1 for hours across most of the world.

The deadline effect of December 31

January 1 is the hardest deadline on the calendar: FSA spending in many plans, individual 401(k) contributions for the tax year, charitable donations you want to deduct, and annual insurance deductibles all reset with the year. The days-remaining figure above is effectively your countdown for those. On the lighter side, book New Year’s Eve dinners and travel several weeks out — and if your resolution involves a gym, expect the crowds to peak the first two weeks of January and thin out by February.

Counting toward a date of your own instead? The days from today calculator adds any number of days to today, and the days between dates calculator measures the gap between any two dates — deadlines, anniversaries or trips.

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