Counting the nights
How many sleeps until Christmas?
That's 0 nights of sleep before you wake up on Christmas morning.
0Sleeps
No more sleeps · 0d 0h 0m to go
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What counts as a sleep?
A "sleep" is simply a night of sleep between now and Christmas morning. If today is 20 December, there are 5 sleeps until Christmas — you go to sleep five more times before waking up on 25 December.
It's the way most families count down with children, because nights are easier to picture than hours. On Christmas Eve there is exactly one sleep left.
Prefer the precise version? See the full Christmas countdown in days, hours, minutes and seconds, count how many weeks until Christmas, see how many days until Christmas Eve, or learn to say Merry Christmas in different languages.