Retirement countdown clock

A retirement countdown to your date, with the days, weekdays and Mondays until it, from your birth date and the age you'll stop at.

How long until I can retire?

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Retirement ages by country

Retirement ages in the US, UK and Australia

Pension	Age	When people stop
US Social Security, full	67 if born in 1960 or later; 66 and 2 to 10 months for 1955 to 1959	Retirees say they stopped at a median 62; workers expect 65 (EBRI 2026)
US Social Security, earliest	62, paid 30% less a month when full age is 67	46% of retirees left work earlier than they planned (EBRI 2026)
UK State Pension	66, rising to 67 between 2026 and 2028 and to 68 between 2044 and 2046	Average age leaving work in 2024: men 65.7, women 64.5 (DWP)
Australian Age Pension	67	People 45 and over who retired in 2024-25 stopped at 63.8 on average (ABS)

Pension age rules in the US, UK and Australia

The US: 62

Social Security pays from 62.

If you were born on the 1st of a month, Social Security counts you as born in the month before, and a January 1 birthday counts in the year before. The clock does the same, so a birthday on the 1st gets a countdown a month shorter.

39% of workers expect to work to 70 or later, or never to stop. The clock can’t count to never.

The UK: 66, then 67, then 68

State Pension age is 66 and rising.

Australia: 67

The Age Pension starts at 67. Men aged 45 and over who retired in 2024-25 stopped at 64.9 on average. Women stopped at 62.7. People 45 and over plan to stop at 65.6, which still leaves 1.4 years before the pension starts.

Counting down to retirement

Working days until retirement

Weekdays left counts every Monday to Friday after today and before your retirement date. It doesn’t know your public holidays, leave or sick days, so you’ll work fewer days than it shows.

Mondays left counts the same way. Ten years out, it’s about 520, and each one opens with a standup.

When to hand in your notice

Close to the finish, the way out matters as much as the date. A layoff usually comes with a package. A resignation or a retirement comes with a card, and the farewell message examples include retirement lines for it.

Hand in the letter the week before a round of cuts and you’ve traded the package for a card and a cake. Voluntary redundancy offered a few months before a pension starts can pay for that last stretch instead.

Stock that hasn’t vested yet is a second countdown running beside this one. When it keeps you in the job, it has a name: golden handcuffs.

A retirement countdown clock for your desktop

Bookmark this page, or pin it beside the countdown to 5pm: one tab for today, one for the whole job. It reads the time again whenever you come back, so the count is right the moment the tab is in front of you. Of all the work day countdown clocks, it’s the longest by some way.

Questions about retirement countdowns

How to set a retirement countdown clock on iPhone?

Open this page in Safari, tap the More button, then Share, then Add to Home Screen, which sits under Edit Actions if it's missing. Turn on Open as Web App and tap Add. The countdown gets its own icon and opens like an app.

How to create a retirement countdown?

You need two things: your birth date and the age you'll stop at. Put both in the fields above and the count runs to the day you reach that age, down to the second.

Is there a free online countdown clock for retirement?

Yes, this one. It costs nothing and needs no account, and nothing you enter leaves your device.

Is there an app that can countdown to my retirement clock?

You don't need to install one. This page runs in any phone's browser, and the iPhone steps above give it a home screen icon of its own.

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