Which time zone does the countdown use?

It uses your device's local time zone, counting down to midnight on 1 January where you are.

Does the countdown update by itself?

Yes. It refreshes every second while the page is open, with no page reload needed.

Which year does it count down to?

It always targets the next 1 January. It uses your current year plus one, so the countdown is to the start of the coming year and never to a date already passed.

Will the countdown match the New Year somewhere else?

It is anchored to your own device's time zone, so it reaches zero at midnight where you are. New Year arrives at different moments around the world, so other regions will see a different remaining time.

Is anything sent to a server?

No. The timer runs entirely in your browser using your local clock.

Countdown to New Year

This page shows a live countdown to the New Year — the days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining until midnight on 1 January in your local time zone. There is nothing to set up, making it ideal for a New Year’s Eve party screen, a phone, or a shared display.

How it works

The timer takes your current year, adds one, and builds a target at midnight on 1 January of that next year in your local time zone. Every second it re-reads your device clock and computes the difference to that target, breaking it into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Because it is anchored to your local time zone, it reaches zero exactly when the New Year arrives where you are.

Example

At 31 December, 9:00 pm, the countdown reads about 3 hours, 0 minutes until the New Year, ticking down each second. At the stroke of midnight it reaches 0d 00:00:00, and from then it targets the following 1 January.

There is nothing to set up: the timer reads your device clock, so it is always accurate for wherever you are, and it never sends anything to a server.