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In summary:
- PCWorld explains how to track Santa’s Christmas Eve journey using two main services: Google Santa Tracker and NORAD Tracks Santa.
- Both platforms offer real-time location updates and present counters, with NORAD featuring engaging 3D animations of Santa’s travels.
- These free tracking services help families follow Santa’s global gift delivery, though location discrepancies between trackers may occur. Detailed instructions are provided below.
If you want to follow Santa’s journey around the world in real time on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, there are two services to choose from.
One is the Google Santa Tracker, a service that not only tells us where Santa is, but also how many presents Jolly Ol’ St. Nick has delivered to children across the globe.
The other is Norad tracks Santa, where we are treated to really nice 3D animations of Santa’s journey. It also has a present counter for the stat nerds out there.
Note that the two services have different information on the exact location of Santa — so it could be that there are actually several Santas and not just one. Or maybe our mere mortal technology isn’t able to track Christmas magic as smoothly as it does airplanes?
This article originally appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Mikael Markander, Contributor, PCWorld
Mikael writes news across all our consumer tech categories. He has previously worked with Macworld, but today mainly writes for our sister sites PC för Alla and M3. Mikael has a firm grasp on which gadgets are released, and what is happening with the streaming services and the latest AI tools.