# Santa Tracker | Santa’s Grotto

**Direct answer:** Santa’s Grotto includes an interactive Christmas Eve Santa tracker at https://santa.affix-io.com/tracker/. It follows a NORAD-inspired westbound route on an open-source Leaflet map. Live tracking opens at 00:00 UTC on 24 December 2026. Until then the radar is in a playful warm-up mode.

- Canonical: https://santa.affix-io.com/tracker/
- Publisher: AffixIO - https://www.affix-io.com/
- Reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Language: en-GB
- Opens: 2026-12-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Stack: Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause), OpenStreetMap tiles

## What you can do before Christmas Eve

1. Watch the countdown to Christmas Eve.
2. Warm the radar, check on the reindeer, and polish the sleigh bells.
3. Come back when the flight goes live. The route is revealed only then.

## Route tradition

Santa usually begins near the International Date Line and travels west: South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, then the Americas. This page is inspired by that tradition. It is not the official NORAD Tracks Santa service.

## FAQ

### Is this official NORAD?
No. Official tracker: https://www.noradsanta.org/

### When is it live?
00:00 UTC on 24 December 2026 through midday UTC on 25 December 2026.

### What happens after the flight?
You can still explore the route until Santa’s Grotto locks at 18:00 UK on 31 December 2026 (“Back next year”).