Days until calculator

What this countdown does

This is the plain version of every countdown on the site: you pick a date, it tells you how many days are left. Nothing is attached to it and nothing is looked up, which makes it the right tool when the date is yours alone — a deadline someone handed you, a milestone you set yourself, a day you are counting toward for reasons no calculator could guess. The answer comes as whole days, as weeks and days, and with the weekday the date falls on.

How to use it

1. Pick the date you're counting down to.
2. Read the days remaining at the top.
3. Check the weeks-and-days breakdown and the weekday it falls on.
4. Use Share to send the live countdown to anyone.

When it's useful

Reach for it when nothing more specific fits. If you are counting to a fixed holiday or to a birthday, one of the dedicated countdowns below does more of the work for you — it finds the date itself and rolls forward to next year on its own. This page is for everything that is not already on somebody else's calendar.

Which countdown do you actually need?

The days-until pages on this site come in three kinds, and picking the right one often saves you from typing a date at all.

Fixed annual dates are worked out for you. Countdowns like Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day and the clocks changing take no input: they find the next occurrence from today and roll on to the following year the moment the day passes.

Recurring personal dates need the original date once. Enter a date of birth in the birthday countdown, or a wedding date in the anniversary countdown, and the page targets the next occurrence of that day and month rather than the year you typed.

Everything else is a single date you choose — this page, or one of the labelled versions of it. A wedding, a holiday, retirement and a due date all run exactly this calculation with a field name that matches what you are waiting for.

Calendar days, not working days

The count includes weekends and public holidays, because it measures elapsed time rather than effort. That is what you want for a holiday or a birthday, and not what you want for a deadline: 30 calendar days is roughly 21 or 22 working days, depending on where the weekends fall. If working days are the number you need, the business days calculator does that instead.

Does today count?

This is where countdowns disagree with one another. This page counts the days between today and the target, so a date tomorrow reads 1 day and a date today reads 0. Some calendars count inclusively and would call those same two dates 2 days and 1 day. Neither convention is wrong, but if your number differs from a printed schedule or another site by exactly one, that is almost always the reason.

Dates that have already passed

A date in the past gives a negative count, shown as days ago rather than days remaining, so the page doubles as a how-long-since tool. If you want the gap between two dates where neither of them is today, the date difference calculator takes both ends instead.

How the days are counted

The count is in whole calendar days from today to the date you pick, calculated in UTC so it never drifts with time zones or daylight saving. If the date has already passed, the count shows how many days ago it was.