New Year Countdown: Days, Hours and Seconds Left

As of 10 October 2026, there are 83 days until New Year's Day, Friday 1 January 2027. The countdown below shows the days, hours, minutes and seconds left until midnight in your own time zone, has a full-screen mode with a last-10-seconds count for a TV or a party, and shows the order in which midnight reaches the rest of the world. It is free, needs no sign-up, and nothing you do here is saved or sent.

How to use the New Year countdown

1. Open this page on the screen you will use. The countdown reads your device's clock and time zone, so it counts to midnight where you are.
2. Read the days, hours, minutes and seconds left. When they reach zero it is New Year's Day, and the page says so.
3. For a TV or a party, press Full screen. The digits fill the screen, and the last 10 seconds are counted out in giant numbers.
4. Press Copy link or Send in Telegram so everyone in the group counts down to the same midnight.
5. To see when midnight reaches other places, scroll to the table below the countdown.

How many days until New Year?

New Year’s Day is always 1 January, so the days left are the days from today to the end of 31 December. In 2027 it falls on a Friday: Friday 1 January 2027. The countdown above ends at 00:00 on that date in your own time zone, and it counts real time, so a clock change on the way can’t move the finish. After midnight the page shows New Year’s Day until the end of 1 January, then starts counting to 1 January 2028, which is a Saturday.

When does New Year arrive around the world?

Midnight moves from east to west, and the whole sweep takes 26 hours. The first inhabited place to reach 1 January is Kiritimati, in the Line Islands of Kiribati, at UTC+14. It is midnight there at 10:00 UTC on 31 December. The Chatham Islands, at UTC+13:45 in summer time, follow 15 minutes later, then come the UTC+13 places: Tonga, Samoa, Tokelau and New Zealand, which is on summer time in January. After them come Fiji, eastern Australia, Japan, India, Dubai, Kyiv, Berlin and London, and midnight crosses the Atlantic to the Americas. The last inhabited places are American Samoa and Niue at UTC−11. The very last midnight, at UTC−12, falls on Baker Island and Howland Island, where nobody lives, 26 hours after Kiritimati. The table under the countdown lists the order and shows each midnight in your own time.

A caution about summer time. January is summer in the southern hemisphere, so New Zealand (UTC+13 instead of UTC+12) and eastern Australia (UTC+11 instead of UTC+10) are on daylight time, and the table follows whatever your browser’s time-zone data says for that year. If a country changes its clocks, trust the local rules over this page.

How do I show the countdown on a TV at a party?

Open this page in the browser of the device connected to the screen (a laptop on HDMI, a phone or tablet mirrored to the TV, or the TV’s own browser) and press Full screen. The digits fill the screen. Press Escape or Exit full screen to leave. In the last 10 seconds the page switches to one giant number per second, and then it says Happy New Year! once.

• Plug the device in. The page asks the browser to keep the screen awake, but a laptop on battery can still sleep.
• Open the page a few minutes early to be sure the picture works on that screen.
• If a phone’s browser does not allow real full screen, the page fills the window instead.
• The digits follow your device’s clock, which phones and computers set from the network. A TV broadcast or a live stream can run several seconds behind, so decide whether the room counts with this screen or with the stream.

How do I send a message at exactly midnight in Telegram?

1. Open the chat and type your message.
2. Press and hold the Send button (on Telegram Desktop, right-click it) and choose Schedule Message.
3. Pick 1 January and 00:00, then confirm.

Telegram added scheduled messages in September 2019: hold Send in any chat, choose Schedule Message, and Telegram sends the message by itself at the time you set. It also works in Saved Messages, where it doubles as a reminder. Check the time the picker shows before you confirm, because it follows your device’s clock. A Telegram gift is sent in the moment rather than scheduled, so choose it a few minutes early and send it as the countdown ends. The steps are in how to send a gift in Telegram, and New Year traditions, wishes and a gift in Telegram has the wishes and what other countries do at midnight.

Counting down to Christmas first? The Christmas countdown works the same way and counts the sleeps too. For the hours before midnight, the charades generator deals the words and keeps the time.

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