Days Until Valentine's Day

This live countdown shows how many days are left until Valentine's Day, 14 February. The number is worked out from today's date and refreshes automatically each time you open the page, and once the day has passed it rolls forward on its own to the next year.

Because it always points at the very next 14 February, you can bookmark the page and it will stay correct year after year. A countdown takes the guesswork out of planning something thoughtful: booking a table before the good times go, ordering flowers or a gift with enough delivery time, arranging a night away, or posting a card so it arrives on the day rather than after it. Watching the number fall is a gentle reminder to sort those things while there is still time.

The result also shows which weekday the coming Valentine's Day lands on — a 14 February on a Saturday invites very different plans from one in the middle of a working week. Everything is anchored to today and computed in a timezone-safe way, so the figure is consistent wherever you are, and it all runs privately in your browser.

To use it, simply read the number — the days until Valentine's Day appear automatically. On 14 February the page tells you the day is here rather than showing a countdown, and you can change the date in the picker to count toward any other occasion.

If you are counting toward something else, the days until Christmas and days until New Year pages work the same way, and the countdown timer to a date counts down to any date you choose.

The countdown is the number of whole days from today to the next 14 February, calculated at UTC midnight so it is timezone-safe. Once this year's Valentine's Day has passed, the target rolls forward to 14 February the following year. On the day itself the count is zero.