Why Hanukkah 2024 falls on Christmas Day. It won’t happen again for 11 years.
While Hanukkah and Christmas do often overlap, the last time the first night of Hanukkah landed on Christmas Day was 2005, 19 years ago. More recently, in 2016, Hanukkah fell on Dec. 24, Christmas Eve. That will happen again in 2027. But the first night of Hanukkah won’t coincide with Christmas Day again until 2035.