Why we ask which city
Midnight on New Year's Eve arrives thirty-seven times, over twenty-five hours. A party that starts at 19:00 in Lisbon starts at 20:00 for the friend reading about it in Berlin. So the countdown asks where, not just when — and once it knows, everybody counts to the same moment, including whoever opens it on a plane.
Set one six months out and it crosses a clock change on the way without losing an hour — the dates come from the IANA time zone database, the same place the rest of this site gets them. And if the time you pick is one the clocks skip over, or one that happens twice on the night they go back, we say so under the city rather than quietly choosing for you.
Ready to go
Two that get asked for often enough to have pages of their own. Open one, press Make your own, and it becomes yours to change.
Common questions
Do I need an account?
No. The link is the countdown — making one and sending it are the same action. Keep the link and you can come back and change it later.
What do people in other countries see?
The same numbers you see, counting to the same moment. The city you pick decides that moment, so nobody has to convert anything or ask which time zone you meant.
What happens after it reaches zero?
The page stays up and shows your closing line, if you set one, where the numbers were. Nothing expires and nothing is deleted.
Keep your link. There is no account and nothing saved on our side — the link is the countdown, which is also why we cannot get one back for you if it goes missing. Save it somewhere, or just make it again; it takes a minute.