Stranger Things season 5 starts dropping in the UK in late 2025, with all parts arriving on Netflix there within the 2025 holiday period and the finale landing right as 2025 turns into 2026.

UK release dates at a glance

  • Volume 1 :
    • Global launch set for 26 November 2025 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
* In the UK, that lines up with the early hours of **27 November 2025** (around 1 a.m.), since Netflix drops it simultaneously worldwide and the “date may vary based on your local timezone.”
  • Volume 2 :
    • Drops on Christmas Day 2025 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
* That again means very early **Boxing Day (26 December) 2025** in the UK, in the small hours.
  • Final episode (series finale) :
    • Released on New Year’s Eve 2025 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, as a standalone “event” episode.
* For UK viewers, this should arrive in the early hours of **1 January 2026** , closing the series just as the new year begins.

How Netflix is rolling it out

  • Netflix confirmed that Season 5 is split into three drops: Volume 1, Volume 2 (at Christmas), and a separate finale on New Year’s Eve.
  • All episodes are released at the same moment worldwide (5 p.m. PT on each date), so UK calendars will show the volumes and finale as slightly shifted into the next day.

For practical purposes in the UK:

  • Start of Season 5: 27 November 2025 (early morning).
  • Middle batch: 26 December 2025 (early morning).
  • Final episode: 1 January 2026 (early morning).

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