What time does Santa come to Leyland?

Santa is due in Leyland at 23:39 on Christmas Eve.

42 sleeps until Santa comes to Leyland.

North Pole Sleigh LineStop 152 of 463

Your stopLeyland

Santa due23:39

Be asleep by 22:15. He only lands when the lights are out.

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Be asleep by

22:15

He only lands when everyone in Leyland is asleep and the lights are out.

In the flight plan

Stop 152 of 463

He comes from Preston (23:39) and goes on to Southport (23:39).

Sunset in Leyland on Christmas Eve

15:53

It gets dark at 15:53, so there are 8 hours of night before he lands.

From the North Pole

2,509 miles

How far Leyland is from the North Pole, measured along the earth's surface.

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Near Leyland

Preston5 miles23:39
Blackburn10 miles23:39
Skelmersdale10 miles23:39
Wigan10 miles23:41
Southport13 miles23:39

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Questions

What time does Santa come to Leyland?

Santa is due in Leyland at 23:39 on Christmas Eve. Children should be asleep by 22:15, because he only lands when the lights are out. The time is from our make-believe flight plan, and it is the same every year.

When does the Santa tracker start?

The map and every town's flight plan are here all through November and December. On Christmas Eve Santa leaves the North Pole at 10:00, UK time, and the map follows him live until he is home at 11:00 on Christmas Day. He reaches Shetland, his first British stop, at about 21:30.

Is the Santa tracker real?

The flight plan is ours and it is for fun: we work out Santa's route and times from a timetable, so everyone sees the same sleigh at the same moment. The weather warnings are real, read from the Met Office, and so are the sunset times and the distances. For the worldwide trackers, NORAD has followed Santa every Christmas Eve since 1955, and Google runs its own Santa Tracker.

Does it cost anything, and what happens to my postcode?

The tracker is free and there is nothing to sign up for. Your postcode stays in your browser: it goes only to postcodes.io, a free postcode service, to find where it is, and never to us.

Santa's flight plan is make-believe, worked out from where you live. The weather warnings are real, from the Met Office.

Sunset times are worked out with the standard solar calculation. Distances are along the earth's surface.