How Many Days Until Orthodox Christmas 2027?

When is Orthodox Christmas 2027?

Orthodox Christmas 2027 is on Thursday, January 7, 2027. The date stays the same each year (January 7); the day of the week moves on by one, or by two after a February 29. The 2028 date is Friday, January 7.

About Orthodox Christmas

Orthodox Christmas falls on January 7 for the churches that still follow the old Julian calendar. Its December 25 now runs 13 days behind the Gregorian one, and that gap holds until 2100. The Russian, Serbian and Georgian churches keep the feast on this date, along with Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians and Egypt's Coptic Christians, and it's a public holiday in all five countries. The Greek and Romanian churches moved to a revised calendar in 1924 and the Bulgarian church in 1968, so they celebrate on December 25.

Christmas Eve services on January 6 bring the long Nativity Fast to an end. In Serbia families bring an oak branch called the badnjak into the house and lay it on the fire that evening. Ethiopians call the feast Genna, and many go to church wrapped in the netela, a thin white cotton shawl.

How many business days until Orthodox Christmas?

Without weekends, Orthodox Christmas is 59 weekdays away, Monday to Friday from tomorrow through Thursday, January 7, 2027. Take out the 4 federal holidays on the way, Veterans Day through New Year's Day, and the US count is 55 business days. Each country drops its own public holidays, so the UK gets 56, Canada 55 and Australia 56.

Holidays that only a state, province or employer gives, between October 19, 2026, and January 7, 2027, are still in the count. The business days calculator can take yours out.

Countdown milestones to Orthodox Christmas

The countdown to Orthodox Christmas reaches 75 days on Saturday, October 24, 2026 and gets down to 1 day on Wednesday, January 6, 2027.

Days until Orthodox Christmas from other dates

A week from today, on Sunday, October 25, there will be 74 days to go until Orthodox Christmas, and from Sunday, November 1 it will be 67 days.

January 2027

Orthodox Christmas 2027 facts

About this count

Each midnight takes one off the 81. Today is left out and January 7 itself is counted, so on Wednesday, January 6 the page will show 1 day to go. US clocks go back on Sunday, November 1 along the way, which changes the hours but not the number of days.

In Excel or Google Sheets, =DATE(2027,1,7)-TODAY() gives the same 81 today; add 1 to count today as well.

This countdown to Orthodox Christmas 2027 was worked out on Sunday, October 18, 2026 (US Eastern time), and your browser recounts it from your own date when the page opens.

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