What time does Santa come to Musselburgh?
Santa is due in Musselburgh at 22:42 on Christmas Eve.
42 sleeps until Santa comes to Musselburgh.
Be asleep by 21:30. He only lands when the lights are out.
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He only lands when everyone in Musselburgh is asleep and the lights are out.
In the flight plan
He comes from St Andrews (22:41) and goes on to Glenrothes (22:43).
Sunset in Musselburgh on Christmas Eve
It gets dark at 15:41, so there are 7 hours of night before he lands.
From the North Pole
How far Musselburgh is from the North Pole, measured along the earth's surface.
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Near Musselburgh
- Bonnyrigg5 miles22:43
- Edinburgh5 miles22:43
- Penicuik10 miles22:43
- Kirkcaldy12 miles22:43
- Broxburn16 miles22:43
Watch his sleigh live on the night, and see every city's time, on the Santa tracker map.
Questions
What time does Santa come to Musselburgh?
Santa is due in Musselburgh at 22:42 on Christmas Eve. Children should be asleep by 21:30, 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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