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What time does Santa come to Littlehampton?

Santa is due in Littlehampton at 00:58, just after midnight on Christmas Eve.

42 sleeps until Santa comes to Littlehampton.

North Pole Sleigh LineStop 352 of 463
Your stopLittlehampton
Santa due00:58

Be asleep by 22:30. He only lands when the lights are out.

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Be asleep by

22:30

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

In the flight plan

Stop 352 of 463

He comes from Horsham (00:57) and goes on to Bognor Regis (00:58).

Sunset in Littlehampton on Christmas Eve

16:00

It gets dark at 16:00, so there are 9 hours of night before he lands.

From the North Pole

2,708 miles

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

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Near Littlehampton

  1. Bognor Regis6 miles00:58
  2. Worthing7 miles00:55
  3. Chichester11 miles00:58
  4. Brighton and Hove17 miles00:55
  5. Havant20 miles00:58

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Questions

What time does Santa come to Littlehampton?

Santa is due in Littlehampton at 00:58, just after midnight on Christmas Eve. Children should be asleep by 22:30, 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.

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