Where is Santa right now? Tracker shows his location for Christmas 2025

It is getting to that time of year again when Santa Claus gathers up his reindeer to deliver presents across the globe for Christmas 2025.

But delivering presents to the more than eight billion people in the world is no easy feat – even with the help of Father Christmas’s elves and reindeer.

He will be visiting 390,000 homes per minute, so he will have to work fast to make sure everybody’s wish comes true this Christmas.

Santa has to travel more than 40million miles to make this journey – the equivalent distance between Earth and Mars.

In fact, he travels at lightning speed across the sky to cover all this ground, so it is impossible to see him.

Thankfully there is another way you can track him thanks to the internet.

How to track Santa Claus this Christmas

Every year, as Santa sets off on his sleigh from Lapland, it is the job of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) to track his journey across the world on Wednesday, December 24 – Christmas Eve.

Norad usually monitors aerospace in the event of nuclear attack, but the organisation has enjoyed something a bit more jolly for the last six decades during the festive season.

It shares live updates on the whereabouts of Father Christmas and his reindeer as they travel the globe.

Those wishing to watch Santa’s journey across the world this Christmas and monitor his progress can do so thanks to the NORAD Santa website.

There, a digital Santa on his sleigh pulled by reindeer traverses a 3D map of the world in the build up to Christmas Day.

Google also have their own Santa tracker, santatracker.google.com, which shows exactly where in the world he is and how many presents he’s dropped off so far.

It has a variety of games to play online throughout December too.

Google says that during his journey, Father Christmas visits every country and 419 different locations over the course of 25 hours.

This includes the ruins of the ancient city of Myra, Turkey, where the legendary St Nicholas was the bishop, Rovaniemi, Finland, which many consider to be the ‘home of Santa Claus’, and as always he’s taking a quick pass by the town of Santa Claus, Indiana.

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