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December 2025 will be the twelfth and final month of the current common year. The month, which will begin on a Monday, will end on a Wednesday after 31 days. .

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December 2025

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake
• Gaza Strip famine

Economics

• German economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• United States tariff policy

• United States–Canada–Mexico trade war
• United States–China trade war

Politics and diplomacy

• Gaza war hostage crisis
• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• Thai political crisis
• United States deportation efforts

Protests and strikes

• Gaza war protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Serbian anti-corruption protests
• United States anti-deportation protests

Weather

• Canadian wildfires
• European heatwaves

Elections and referendums

Upcoming

• August

• 17: Bolivia, President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies

Sports

• Association football

• 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
• 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
• 2025 Copa Libertadores
• 2025 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
• 2025 Major League Soccer season
• 2025 National Women's Soccer League season

• Australian rules football

• 2025 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2025 MLB season
• 2025 NPB season

• Basketball

• 2025 WNBA season

• Canadian football

• 2025 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship

• Cycling

• 2025 UCI World Tour

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 LIV Golf League
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Motorsport

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
• 2025 MotoGP World Championship
• 2025 World Rally Championship
• 2025 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2025 IndyCar Series

• Rugby league

• 2025 NRL season
• 2025 Super League season

• Rugby union

• 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

• Multi-sports

• 2025 World Games

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

August0/0July

• 07: Myint Swe
• 06: Eddie Palmieri
• 05: Ion Iliescu
• 05: Terry Reid
• 05: Col Joye
• 04: James Whale
• 03: Loni Anderson
• 03: Stella Rimington
• 02: Hilary Weston
• 01: Jeannie Seely
• 31: Flaco Jiménez
• 31: Robert Wilson
• 29: Alon Abutbul
• 29: Allan Ahlberg
• 29: Michael Hill
• 28: Wallis Annenberg
• 28: Laura Dahlmeier
• 28: Ryne Sandberg
• 27: Horst Mahler
• 26: Tom Lehrer
• 26: Ziad Rahbani
• 24: Hulk Hogan
• 24: Cleo Laine
• 23: Arnold Palacios
• 23: George Veikoso
• 22: Joey Jones
• 22: George Kooymans
• 22: Chuck Mangione
• 22: Ozzy Osbourne
• 21: V. S. Achuthanandan
• 21: Roy Black
• 21: Kenneth Calman
• 20: Malcolm-Jamal Warner
• 18: Edwin Feulner
• 17: Felix Baumgartner
• 17: Alan Bergman
• 17: Bryan Braman
• 16: Connie Francis
• 15: Judy Loe
• 15: Bradley John Murdoch
• 14: B. Saroja Devi
• 14: Eileen Fulton
• 14: Andrea Gibson
• 14: John MacArthur
• 14: Fauja Singh
• 13: Muhammadu Buhari
• 11: Martin Cruz Smith
• 10: David Gergen
• 09: Ian Blair
• 09: Lee Elia
• 09: Glen Michael
• 08: Paulette Jiles

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Sahel

• Mali War
• Chad Basin

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Cambodia and Thailand
  • Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2025 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain