Christmas Day 2029 is still ahead. It falls on Tuesday, 25 December 2029, 1,215 days after 28 August 2026. This page is kept whichever side of today the date falls on: the date and the rule behind it are worth looking up either way. For the year after this one see Next Christmas Day, and for the always-current countdown see the next Christmas Day.
Christmas Day 2029 is Tuesday, 25 December 2029
There are 1,215 days between 28 August 2026 and Christmas Day 2029, which falls on Tuesday, 25 December 2029. That is 173 weeks and 4 days, or 829 working days once Saturdays, Sundays and the US federal holidays in between are taken out — the figure that matters if you are counting delivery lead time or a work schedule rather than sleeps. The date is 2029-12-25 in ISO form and 12/25/2029 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 52 of 2029, and it is day 359 of 365.
How the date of Christmas Day is decided
Christmas Day is always 25 December. When it falls on a Saturday the federal holiday is observed on Friday 24 December; when it falls on a Sunday, on Monday 26 December.
That makes it a fixed date: the same day of the same month every year, so it lands on a different weekday each time. In 2029 it is a Tuesday.
Christmas Day is one of the eleven US federal holidays. Federal offices, banks and the bond market close, and it does not count as a business day in any of the business-day calculators on this site. In 2029 it falls on a Tuesday, a normal working day, so there is no observed-date shift this year. When it lands at a weekend the observance moves to the adjacent Friday or Monday. The observed date is the one our business days calculator skips.
Christmas Day in the years after 2029
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2030 | 25 December 2030 | Wednesday | Next Christmas Day |
| 2031 | 25 December 2031 | Thursday | Next Christmas Day |
| 2032 | 25 December 2032 | Saturday | Next Christmas Day |
The date does not move, but the weekday does — which is why the same holiday gives a long weekend in some years and not others.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including how we count the 829 working days above.