The clock reaches 2027 at midnight on Friday, January 1, 2027, 68 days from today, with New Year's Eve the night before.
New Year's Day 2027:
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68 days to go.
Time left until 12:00 AM on January 1:
New Year's Day falls on January 1.
81.4% of the time since New Year's Day 2026 has gone by
Counting to midnight in: your device's time zone. How the count works
New Year's Day falls on January 1. The date stays the same every year, so only the day of the week changes.
| Year | Date | Federal day off | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Same day | 68 days | |
| 2028 | Friday, December 31, 2027 | 433 days | |
| 2029 | Same day | 799 days | |
| 2030 | Same day | 1,164 days | |
| 2031 | Same day | 1,529 days |
New Year’s Day is the finish line, so this count always runs one higher than the days left this year, which stop at December 31. The “Days until New Year’s Eve” figure under the clock is that days-left number. December 31 is day number 365 in a common year and 366 in a leap year.
| Date | Days left in the year after it | Days until New Year’s Day |
|---|---|---|
| December 1 | 30 | 31 |
| December 25 | 6 | 7 |
| December 30 | 1 | 2 |
| December 31 | 0 | 1 |
The new year crosses the nine U.S. standard time zones over 21 hours, from Guam to American Samoa. Each zone’s midnight is listed here in Eastern Time. Every U.S. zone is on standard time on January 1.
| Time zone | Example place | UTC offset | Midnight there, in Eastern Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamorro | Guam | UTC+10 | 9:00 AM, December 31 |
| Atlantic | Puerto Rico | UTC−4 | 11:00 PM, December 31 |
| Eastern | New York City | UTC−5 | 12:00 AM, January 1 |
| Central | Chicago | UTC−6 | 1:00 AM, January 1 |
| Mountain | Denver | UTC−7 | 2:00 AM, January 1 |
| Pacific | Los Angeles | UTC−8 | 3:00 AM, January 1 |
| Alaska | Anchorage | UTC−9 | 4:00 AM, January 1 |
| Hawaii-Aleutian | Honolulu | UTC−10 | 5:00 AM, January 1 |
| Samoa | Pago Pago | UTC−11 | 6:00 AM, January 1 |
Friends in New York and Los Angeles who each open this page see clocks 3 hours apart, because each one follows its own device.
New Year’s Day, January 1, is a federal holiday under 5 U.S.C. 6103, and it was one of the four holidays in the first federal holiday law in 1870. New Year’s Eve is not, with one exception: when January 1 falls on a Saturday, most federal employees get Friday, December 31, off instead. That happens next on December 31, 2027, ahead of New Year’s Day 2028.
A Sunday New Year’s Day moves the day off to Monday, January 2, as it will in 2034. Each row of the dates table on this page shows which weekday federal workers get off that year.
A phone or laptop can drift from the official time, and this clock drifts with it. Before the last minute, compare it with time.gov, the official U.S. time site run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new year begins at 12:00 AM, written 00:00 on a 24-hour clock, and the last minute of the old year is 11:59 PM, or 23:59.
For the final hours of New Year’s Eve, or any other night, the time left until midnight gives the same finish in hours, minutes and seconds. The Christmas countdown covers the holiday a week earlier.