Twelfth Night in 2025 falls on Sunday, 5 January 2025 in most Western Christian traditions that celebrate Christmas on 25 December.

What Twelfth Night Is

  • Twelfth Night is traditionally the 12th night after Christmas Day , marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
  • In churches and customs that keep Christmas on 25 December, counting twelve days forward places Twelfth Night on the evening of 5 January, with Epiphany on 6 January.

Why It’s 5 January 2025

  • If you treat Christmas Day (25 December 2024) as day one, then the 12th night is the night of 5 January 2025.
  • Many calendars and church observances in the UK and US follow this counting, so Twelfth Night festivities and decorations traditionally end on the evening of 5 January 2025.

Quick Notes and Variations

  • Some traditions instead focus on Epiphany itself (6 January) and call that Twelfth Day, but the commonly referenced “Twelfth Night” party or observance is the night before, i.e., 5 January 2025.
  • If following Eastern or Orthodox calendars that celebrate Christmas on a different date (such as 7 January), the equivalent Twelfth Night will fall on a different day than 5 January 2025.

Bottom line: For “when is Twelfth Night 2025?” in the usual Western/English-speaking sense, the answer is Sunday 5 January 2025 (evening).