When will Santa be at your house on Christmas Eve? Track his journey

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• See when Santa Claus is coming to your town with NORAD tracker
• When Is Santa Claus Arriving at Your House on Christmas Eve?
• Where is Santa Claus right now? NORAD tracks Santa for 68th year
• Christmas events in Los Angeles
• What is NORAD, and why did they start tracking Santa?
• The best Christmas shows and ‘Nutcrackers’ in Los Angeles
• See more of our past Christmas coverage
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Over at Google, you can search for Santa's location directly in Google Maps or on google.com, in addition to using the search engine's Santa Tracker. As the hours close in on Christmas Day, Santa is making his rounds delivering toys and presents all around the world. He is expected to arrive in the United States between 9 p.m. He also made a visit earlier to the International Space Station. On a "Sesame Street" town hall episode on CNN last week, Fauci told kids that he "took care of" Santa's COVID-19 vaccine by taking a trip to the North Pole.

See when Santa Claus is coming to your town with NORAD tracker

NORAD tracked Santa on Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, just like they've done for more than six decades. While his trip went smoothly again, the website for NORAD's Santa Tracker had a bit of trouble keeping up early on. WASHINGTON — Santa Claus has wrapped up his journey this year to deliver presents to homes across the globe. Santa Claus got the green light from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert who is celebrating his 80th birthday on Christmas Eve as the world awaits a visit from St. Nicholas. The sites are now in tracking mode, and we will be following along. ET to follow Santa as he makes his way toward the United States.

When Is Santa Claus Arriving at Your House on Christmas Eve?

And finally, NORAD says Canadian and American jet fighters welcome Santa and his reindeer and escort them through North American airspace. NORAD, which is responsible for protecting the skies over the United States and Canada, has been tracking Santa every Christmas Eve for the last 68 years. While you wait for old Saint Nick to arrive, you can also check out games, videos, music, books and other online activities on the NORAD Tracks Santa website. This Christmas Eve will be no different, Pentagon press secretary John F. Kirby said Tuesday.

Where is Santa Claus right now? NORAD tracks Santa for 68th year

His boots are on, his coat is well-pressed and his reindeer are ready. Santa is about to start his annual worldwide tour—and you can follow along. According to NORAD's Santa Tracker, a total of 7,883,693,263 were delivered this year.

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What is NORAD, and why did they start tracking Santa?

"Rudolph's nose gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch," NORAD says. "The satellites detect Rudolph's bright red nose with no problem." Satellites located 22,300 miles above the Earth with infrared sensors also help NORAD in its tracking duties.

The design and planning phase of the project is expected to be an extensive, multi-year process, including ongoing public outreach and a comprehensive environmental review process. The workshop will present key takeaways from community feedback before explaining each design concept. Attendees will be invited to share their input and preferred designs. Onsite Spanish translation can be coordinated by contacting  by Tuesday, May 7. Callers could also dial in throughout the day to find out where Santa is on his journey. Lt. Sean Carter, the NORAD Tracks Santa Program Manager, said volunteers took more than 53,000 calls in 2021, though that's well below the pre-COVID peak of 150,000 calls in 2019.

It is a longstanding tradition for first ladies, but the president joined in 2021 as well. While the Santa Tracker website has been online for several weeks, the real show got underway on the morning of Christmas Eve. Eastern on Dec. 24, NORAD began tracking Santa with updates from around the world. Eastern on Saturday, people from all around the world began noticed the tracker wasn't appearing.

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Get a whole bunch of people to dress up like Santa Claus and hit the town. Of course, you probably use Google to search for everything else, so why not Santa? Google’s Santa Tracker has been on the job for more than 15 years and in addition to tracking, the website offers lots of Santa’s Village content in the days before Christmas. Now that you know how to track Sant Nick’s whereabouts, you’re probably wondering when you can expect him to arrive in Georgia. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden also participated in the tradition, answering calls to the Santa tracking service.

For more than 60 years, NORAD has reported Santa’s location on Christmas Eve to children and families across the world. Several million visitors flood the NORAD Santa tracker website each year from more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Volunteers typically answer more than 130,000 calls to the NORAD Tracks Santa hotline from children across the globe. Shoup then called a radio station to let them know a sleigh was spotted in the sky. NORAD continued to provide updates on Santa's whereabouts every hour on Christmas Eve, invoking a 67-year tradition. "I vaccinated Santa Claus myself," Fauci told children during a "Sesame Street" town hall episode on CNN last week.

Even as the contagious omicron variant sweeps across the globe, there is one guest families can rest assured won't spread COVID-19 this holiday season. SantaTracker.net has built a sophisticated Santa Tracker application that allows users to follow Santa as he travels around the world on Christmas Eve. The Santa Tracker uses state of the art technology that can tell you Santa’s precise location.