Christmastide 2020

When is Christmastide 2020?

What is Christmastide?

Christmastide ("Christmas time"), more commonly called The Twelve Days of Christmas and sometimes referred to as Twelvetide ("Twelve time"), is the festive Christmas season celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. It starts on Christmas Day, December 25, considered the "First Day of Christmas", and ends on January 5 of the following year, on Epiphany Eve (also known as Twelfth Night).

Christmastide encompasses a number of important religious and secular celebrations, including Christmas Day on December 25, St. Stephen's Day/Boxing Day on December 26, Childermas (or the Feast of the Holy Innocents) on December 28, New Year's Eve on December 31, New Year's Day on January 1, and Epiphany Eve (Twelfth Night) on the evening of January 5. However, Christmas Eve on December 24 and Epiphany on January 6 are not part of Christmastide.

Christmastide follows the Advent season and is followed by Epiphanytide ("Epiphany time"), the season of Epiphany.

While for most Western Christian churches Christmastide falls on the dates listed on this page, for some Christian denominations it begins very late on Christmas Eve, while for others it starts on December 26 and last until January 6 of the following year or even further (ie. longer than twelve days).

When is Christmastide 2021?

Dates for Christmastide from 2015 to 2025

The next occurrence of Christmastide is marked in red.

Year	Christmastide starts on	Christmastide ends on
Christmastide 2015	Friday, December 25, 2015	Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Christmastide 2016	Sunday, December 25, 2016	Thursday, January 5, 2017
Christmastide 2017	Monday, December 25, 2017	Friday, January 5, 2018
Christmastide 2018	Tuesday, December 25, 2018	Saturday, January 5, 2019
Christmastide 2019	Wednesday, December 25, 2019	Sunday, January 5, 2020
Christmastide 2020	Friday, December 25, 2020	Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Christmastide 2021	Saturday, December 25, 2021	Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Christmastide 2022	Sunday, December 25, 2022	Thursday, January 5, 2023
Christmastide 2023	Monday, December 25, 2023	Friday, January 5, 2024
Christmastide 2024	Wednesday, December 25, 2024	Sunday, January 5, 2025
Christmastide 2025	Thursday, December 25, 2025	Monday, January 5, 2026
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