CountdownBoxes gathers the things worth waiting for — from the World Cup to Ramadan, a Netflix premiere to the next rocket launch — and gives each one a live countdown you can follow, subscribe to, embed, be reminded about, or plan a trip around. One place, no signup, free to use.
Every event gets its own page and its own ticking clock.
Around 3,500 upcoming events at any moment — league fixtures, concerts, film and TV releases, rocket launches and asteroid flybys, holidays across dozens of countries, game drops, crypto unlocks and more. Each one counts down to the second, and each one links back to where the date came from.
Plain digits by default, because they are the fastest thing to read. If you would rather watch a wall of analog clock hands sweep into the numbers, flip the switch on any countdown page — the choice sticks for your next visit.
Filter to what is running right this minute — a festival mid-week, a transfer window, a season in progress — or look back at what recently passed. A multi-day event shows how far into its run it is, not a countdown to a date that is already behind us.
Sports, Music, Tech, Holidays, Religion, Film, TV Shows, Anime, Gaming, Space, Crypto, Culture and Festivals. Each has its own page, and each one is a calendar you can subscribe to.
The countdown is more useful outside this site than inside it.
Add a single event to your calendar in a tap, or subscribe to a whole category as a live webcal/ICS feed. New events flow into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook on their own — the feed keeps itself current.
Set a reminder on any event and get a push notification before it begins, so the match never kicks off — and the launch window never opens — without you. No account, no email address.
Copy one line of HTML and any countdown lives on your blog, event page or launch teaser. Light or dark, digits or clock wall, sized to fit. Paste the link into Notion, Slack or WordPress and it unfurls into the widget by itself.
Add CountdownBoxes to your home screen and it opens full-screen, launches instantly, and still shows your countdowns when the connection drops.
Three thousand events is only useful if you can get to the one you want.
Type the way you would ask a friend — "game of thrones ne zaman", "how many days until the world cup" — and the search reads past the filler to the thing you actually named. If the answer is that it already happened, it says so instead of showing you an empty page.
Every countdown page suggests genuinely related events, matched by meaning rather than by tag — so Rosh Hashanah leads to Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, and a stage show leads to other stage shows in town.
Hundreds of places have their own page: the concerts, matches, festivals and holidays that actually apply where you are. Allow location once and the home page floats what is near you to the top.
A 3D map of where things are happening. Drag it, pick a city, and read that city's calendar — useful when you are deciding where to go rather than what to see.
Open a few countdowns and a "For you" switch appears on the home page. Turn it on and the list leans toward the categories and places you keep coming back to. It is off by default, the profile is built and kept inside your browser, and nothing about it is sent anywhere.
Not every countdown that matters is a public event.
Counting down to a trip, a birthday, a deadline, a due date? Create your own with a title, a date, an emoji and a colour, and it sits alongside the world's events. It lives in your browser, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing for us to lose.
A custom countdown gets the same widget treatment as a public event: copy the snippet, drop it on any page, and your personal timer keeps counting there. The whole countdown travels in the link, so no account is involved on either end.
Knowing the date is the easy half.
For events tied to a real city, one tap hands the whole thing to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini with the prompt already written: what the event is, where it is, the exact date, and how many days away it is. The prompt tells the assistant to ask you three things first — where you are travelling from and your budget, how long you can stay and who is coming, and what you care about most — and only then build a day-by-day itinerary around the event date, with places to stay near the venue, what to book early, and what the weather and crowds are like at that time of year. Nothing is booked here and no data is collected; you land in your own AI chat with a good first message already typed.
During Ramadan the site shows today's iftar time for where you are, and prayer times are available for the world's larger cities. It sits quietly at the top of the page for the people who need it and stays out of the way for everyone else.
Streaks and quiet achievements for the people who check in on their countdowns. No leaderboard, no pressure — just a nod when you have been around a while.
The boring part that decides whether any of the above is worth trusting.
Events are synced automatically from more than fifty public sources — league APIs, ticketing platforms, film and TV databases, launch schedules, national holiday calendars, seismic and asteroid feeds, prayer-time services. Nothing here is typed in by hand and nothing is invented.
When two sources describe the same thing, the duplicates are merged so one holiday is one page instead of forty, and the surviving page keeps the richer description and the wider country list. Where a source gives a thin, useless description, an AI pass writes a better one — but only when the model actually recognises the event. If it does not, the field stays empty rather than filling the page with confident nonsense.
Dates change, and when a source moves one, the page follows on the next sync. If you spot something wrong, the support page is the fastest way to tell us.
Browse everything coming up, jump to a category calendar and subscribe, or spin the globe and see what is happening somewhere else. One tap, no account.