How many minutes until Winter (December Solstice) 2028?

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The displayed until count is the calendar-day difference between those two dates.","milestones":[{"label":"30 days before","date":"2028-11-21","display":"Tuesday, November 21, 2028"},{"label":"14 days before","date":"2028-12-07","display":"Thursday, December 7, 2028"},{"label":"7 days before","date":"2028-12-14","display":"Thursday, December 14, 2028"},{"label":"3 days before","date":"2028-12-18","display":"Monday, December 18, 2028"},{"label":"1 days before","date":"2028-12-20","display":"Wednesday, December 20, 2028"},{"label":"Target date","date":"2028-12-21","display":"Thursday, December 21, 2028"}],"workdays":[{"label":"Calendar days","value":811},{"label":"Weekdays","value":579},{"label":"Saturdays","value":116},{"label":"Sundays","value":116},{"label":"Public holidays","value":"Not included unless this calculator says otherwise"}],"accuracy":["The result uses the calendar rules and time zone shown on this page.","Leap years and actual month lengths are handled by the calendar arithmetic where they affect the calculation."],"excel":{"formula":"=DATE(2028,12,21)-TODAY()","note":"For days until a fixed date. Reverse the subtraction for days since."},"sections":[["Winter (December Solstice) in plain numbers",["As of Friday, October 2, 2026, Winter (December Solstice) is 811 days away. Put another way, that is 115 full weeks and 6 extra days, about 26 calendar months, or 19,464 hours if you count from midnight. The date lands on a Thursday, in ISO week 51 of 2028, and it is day 356 of 366 in that year.","This page is not a snapshot. The figures are recalculated every time it loads, using the Asia/Karachi time zone, so tomorrow the count will be one day smaller. If you bookmark the page you will always see the current gap rather than the number that was true on the day you saved it, and nobody has to edit anything for that to stay correct."]],["Planning around the date",["For work and school planning the useful numbers are working days and weekends. Between today and Winter (December Solstice) there are 579 weekdays (Monday to Friday), 116 Saturdays and 116 Sundays. Take out public holidays in your region and you have a realistic count of working days left. If you are paid every two weeks, expect about 57 paydays before then, and about 115 if you are paid weekly.","Some people prefer to break a long wait into stages. The quarter mark of the range is Thursday, April 22, 2027, the halfway point is Thursday, November 11, 2027, and the three-quarter mark is Thursday, June 1, 2028. By the time Winter (December Solstice) arrives, 97.3% of 2028 will have gone by. There are 115 Fridays in the range, which is handy if your deadlines or deliveries land at the end of the week."]],["About Winter (December Solstice)",["The December solstice, the astronomical start of Northern Hemisphere winter, computed each year from the sun's position. Winter (December Solstice) marks an astronomical turning point in the year, which is why it is used to mark the start of a season in almanacs even though meteorologists count seasons by whole months.","Winter (December Solstice) is the moment the sun reaches a particular longitude in its apparent path, calculated astronomically for each year. The date can shift by a day between years because the tropical year is not a whole number of days."]],["What comes next",["The next major date after Winter (December Solstice) is Christmas on Monday, December 25, 2028, 4 days later. If you are planning a stretch of several weeks, it helps to know where the next break or deadline falls so you can space out your commitments."]],["Using this minute counter",["Minutes are counted from this moment to midnight at the start of the target date in your own time zone, which the page detects from your device, and the figure at the top of the page ticks live. Minutes make a short wait feel concrete: a day is 1,440 minutes and a week is 10,080."]]],"summary":"Minutes Until Winter (December Solstice) 2028: 1,166,429 minutes until Winter (December Solstice) — Thursday, December 21, 2028","show_method":true}