What time does Santa come to Manchester?

Santa is due in Manchester at 23:42 on Christmas Eve.

42 sleeps until Santa comes to Manchester.

North Pole Sleigh LineStop 175 of 463

Your stopManchester

Santa due23:42

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 Manchester is asleep and the lights are out.

In the flight plan

Stop 175 of 463

He comes from Stretford (23:42) and goes on to Stockport (23:42).

Sunset in Manchester 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

2,523 miles

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

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Near Manchester

Salford2 miles23:41
Stretford3 miles23:42
Urmston5 miles23:41
Sale5 miles23:42
Middleton5 miles23:42

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Questions

What time does Santa come to Manchester?

Santa is due in Manchester at 23:42 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.