Christmas Eve 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Sunday, 24 December 2028, 849 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 Christmas Eve 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve 2028 is Sunday, 24 December 2028
There are 849 days between 28 August 2026 and Christmas Eve 2028, which falls on Sunday, 24 December 2028. That is 121 weeks and 2 days, or 579 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 2028-12-24 in ISO form and 12/24/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 51 of 2028, and it is day 359 of 366.
How the date of Christmas Eve is decided
Christmas Eve is always 24 December. It is not a federal holiday, although federal offices have sometimes closed by executive order.
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 2028 it is a Sunday.
Christmas Eve is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.
Christmas Eve in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 24 December 2029 | Monday | Christmas Eve 2029 |
| 2030 | 24 December 2030 | Tuesday | Next Christmas Eve |
| 2031 | 24 December 2031 | Wednesday | Next Christmas Eve |
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 579 working days above.