{"id":1335661,"date":"2025-12-22T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/christmas-eve-and-christmas-2026-calendar-dates-of-winter-holidays\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:44:57","slug":"christmas-eve-and-christmas-2026-calendar-dates-of-winter-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/christmas-eve-and-christmas-2026-calendar-dates-of-winter-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve and Christmas 2026: calendar dates of winter holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Ukraine, in 2025\u20132026, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day according to the new calendar fall in December, on December 24 and 25, 2025, respectively. These dates determine the beginning of the Christmas holidays, which are accompanied by traditional rituals and family gatherings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/\"><strong>&#8220;Pryamiy&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Christmas Eve in 2026, according to the new calendar, will be celebrated on December 24, 2025. This evening precedes the actual birth of Jesus Christ and is a traditional time for a family dinner with certain ritual dishes and prayers before the holiday.<\/p>\n<p> Christmas according to the new calendar will be celebrated on December 25, 2025 in Ukraine. This date coincides with Catholic Christmas and was introduced in Ukraine as an official holiday after some religious communities switched to the Gregorian calendar.<\/p>\n<p> Under the new calendar, Christmas Eve and Christmas traditions include an evening meal before the holiday itself, as well as morning services and carol singing on December 25. On the evening of December 24, Christmas Eve, people traditionally prepare special dishes and gather with family.<\/p>\n<p> In some communities, some believers may still celebrate Christmas according to the old style, which falls on January 7, 2026, with the corresponding Christmas Eve on January 6, but the December period is the officially recognized date by most communities in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Thus, the main winter Christmas holidays in Ukraine in 2025\u20132026 according to the new calendar are December 24 and 25, which symbolize Christmas Eve and Christmas, respectively.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, the holiday season can cause sensory overload and stress for people with heightened sensitivity. Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/inkliuzyvne-rizdvo-p-iat-porad-dlia-spokiynoho-ta-komfortnoho-provedennia-novorichnykh-sviat\/\">5 practical tips to help make the Christmas holidays more inclusive and comfortable<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ukraine, in 2025\u20132026, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day according to the new calendar fall in December, on December 24 and 25, 2025, respectively. These dates determine the beginning of the Christmas holidays, which are accompanied by traditional rituals and family gatherings. This is reported by &#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; . Christmas Eve in 2026, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1176244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1335661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}