which night of hanukkah is it
Today is January 2, 2026, and Hanukkah 2025 already ended in December, so tonight is not a night of Hanukkah.
When Hanukkah falls
- Hanukkah is an eight‑night Jewish festival that always starts on the 25th of the Hebrew month of Kislev and runs for eight nights.
- On the civil (Gregorian) calendar, those dates slide each year and usually fall sometime between late November and late December.
Recent and upcoming dates
- In the mid‑2020s, Hanukkah dates cluster in late November or December; for example, one recent year ran from November 28 to December 6, and another runs from December 4 to December 12.
- For 2026 specifically, Hanukkah will run from the evening of December 4 through the evening of December 12, giving eight candle‑lighting nights in that span.
How to tell the night once it starts
Once you are within Hanukkah itself, people count the “nth night” by how many Hanukkah candles (not including the helper candle, the shamash) are lit that evening:
- First night: 1 candle.
- Second night: 2 candles, and so on until 8 on the last night.
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