Santa Tracker: How to follow Santa live around the world

Smartphone with Google's Santa Tracker webpage open being held in front of pine trees

(Image credit: Future)

Hopefully Santa Claus has gotten his Covid-19 booster shot, equally he races around the globe this evening (Dec. 24) to deliver presents to all the proficient boys and girls. Merely where exactly is he? And when will he pay a visit to your home?

If your children are demanding to know the reply to these questions, technology can come to your rescue. A couple of unlike methods exist for figuring out where St. Nick is currently making his rounds this Christmas Eve, and all you need to track Santa is a spider web browser.

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This modern method comes courtesy of the N American Aerospace Defense Control, otherwise known as NORAD. The North American air infinite monitoring agency added Santa-tracking to its list of duties in 1955, when a child reportedly placed a telephone telephone call to the agency demanding to know if Santa was over N American airspace.

Today, all you need to exercise to track Santa is head to the official NORAD Santa tracker, which offers a real-fourth dimension graphical view of Santa's journeying beyond the globe. There are also holiday-themed games and songs to bask, while yous run across what Santa is up to.

Screenshot of NORAD Santa Tracker homepage — (Paradigm credit: NORAD)

Meanwhile, Google'due south Santa Tracker can also let you know where St. Nicholas happens to be at the moment, and also contains some fun animations and games for kids — or festive adults.

As of 12:45 p.thou. ET on Christmas Eve, both Google and NORAD accept Santa somewhere over the Middle East, so you tin can chart his journey westward.

Equally for the Google site, you lot tin take role in a mass snowball fight, guide an elf downwards a ski slope, or fifty-fifty give Santa a fabulous makeover for his very ain selfie session.

Screenshot of Google's Santa Tracker page showing the Santa Selfie section — (Image credit: Google)

Google's Santa Tracker is a nice way for the family unit to laissez passer the fourth dimension while you get together upward Santa's milk and cookies fix for the large 24-hour interval. Or, if you even so need to complete your holiday shopping, sit the kids down in front of Santa Tracker while you consult our concluding-infinitesimal gift guide.

Philip Michaels is a senior editor at Tom's Guide. He has potent opinions about Apple, the Oakland Athletics and old movies. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.