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The board above counts down to midnight on 1 January 2027: the exact days, hours, minutes and seconds left in 2026, ticking every second.
It starts in the time zone your browser reports, with no location permission, and you can switch to any of the 400+ zones in the list. The count re-targets to that zone's midnight at once.
New Year does not arrive everywhere at once. It reaches Kiritimati in Kiribati's Line Islands first, at UTC+14, and the uninhabited Baker and Howland Islands last, at UTC−12, 26 hours later. More in where New Year arrives first and last and midnight city by city.
Most zones are a whole number of hours from UTC. The Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude an hour, and how time zones work explains why the real zone lines bend away from that. India keeps UTC+5:30 and Nepal UTC+5:45; the other exceptions are in half-hour and quarter-hour time zones.
Days are whole 24-hour periods, then hours, minutes and seconds. Where a clock change still lies ahead before New Year, the exact time left is an hour more or less than a calendar count, as the daylight saving time article explains. 2026 has 365 days; in a leap year the extra day is already counted. A common year is 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes or 31,536,000 seconds: days, hours, minutes and seconds in a year.
The four groups are days, hours, minutes and seconds, always shown with leading zeros. The seconds reach zero at the exact instant of midnight, not a second early. The bar along the bottom fills with the share of the year already gone in the selected zone. Its marks are the first day of each month, with a heavier mark at each quarter, and the figure beside it is that share in whole percent, rounded down.
Each entry in the time zone list shows that zone's offset from UTC right now, such as UTC+5:30, and the list is grouped by region. The zone names, such as America/New_York, come from the IANA time zone database; one old name survives in Chrome, as why Chrome says Asia/Calcutta, not Asia/Kolkata explains. If your browser does not report a time zone, the label reads "Zone not detected" and the board counts to midnight in UTC until you pick one. If the tab sits in the background or the device goes to sleep, the board reads the clock again when you come back, so the first second you see is already right.
When the year turns in the selected zone, a "Happy new year" message with the new year's number fills the screen for one minute, with fireworks behind it. Underneath, the board is already counting down the year that has just begun, with no reload. On the evening of 31 December you can switch zones and watch midnight arrive in one place after another.
If your device is set to reduce motion, the digits change without the flip and the fireworks are left out. Screen readers get one sentence with the days, hours and minutes left, updated once a minute instead of every second. The board needs no account and no location permission, and sets no cookies. What the site does collect is on the privacy page.
The days left from the first of every month are on the days-left page. How the board works is on the about page, and there are more articles on time zones, leap years and New Year.