How to Track Santa’s Journey Around the World

This will be Norad’s 60th year tracking Santa’s whereabouts as he delivers Christmas gifts to children.

Besides NORAD, Google is also offering its annual Santa Tracker this year, as part of a bigger site that the company has had up for a few weeks.

In order to join in on the fun today, click on the NORAD link located on this page to track Santa with your family. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through operations hotline for the commander of the Continental Air Defense Command.

NORAD – a partnership between the US and Canada responsible for defending North America’s skies and monitoring its seas – began tracking Santa’s once-a-year trip in 1955 after Sears department store mistakenly printed the agency’s phone number in an ad encouraging kids to call the store for updates on Santa’s flight.

On Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, NORAD tracks Santa’s progress across the globe, helping anxious boys and girls know when they should be tucked away in bed.

Not wanting to disappoint the young caller, a staff member checked the radar to work out Santa’s exact location for the child. Fred Mooney of Verizon has been a Santa Tracker volunteer for five years.

Keep checking back to see where’s he at, or call and talk to LIVE Santa trackers at 1-877-446-6723.

Google Maps also has a Santa tracking website, where visitors can also do things like outfit elves and donate to groups in need. The company says that its Santa Tracker app has an interesting countdown timer until the eve of Christmas, along with Santa’s scheduled travelling path worldwide and his exact location at the moment.