Do you struggle to think of a creative way to wish your friends and family a merry Christmas? You’re not alone. In fact, the most-searched Christmas query in five states — Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont, Delaware and Rhode Island — had something to do with this, from “Christmas wishes” to “Christmas GIF.” Luckily for them, Google Search results come through with plenty of holiday card ideas, as well as creative GIFs and images to send on December 25th.
What Every State Is Googling on Christmas
SatelliteInternet.com took a NORAD-worthy look at what the United States is searching for during the Yuletide. 🎄
1 min readSee what internet is available near you over Christmas.
Season’s greetings
Last-minute shoppers
We forgot Kevin! Procrastinators and space cadets abound during the holidays. A whopping 35 states’ top search is something along the lines of “stores open on Christmas Day.”
Rockin’ around the restaurants
Apparently some people prefer to dine-in during the holidays, especially those in the nine states that most commonly google something like “restaurants open on Christmas.”
Santa’s comin’ to town?
The most-searched Christmas query in the capital was a one-off, and a bit surprising — “when is Christmas”? To answer your question, DCers, it is and will always be December 25th.
2023 Yuletide Trends
This year, we added an extra column with holiday searches that specifically relate to entertainment and trends. Results varied, but most were related to holiday movies, particularly Hallmark movies and Prime Video’s new Candy Cane Lane. Some other searches that stood out were “Nightmare Before Christmas Starbucks cup” — referring to a limited-edition tumbler that apparently sold out in minutes — and “grand duchess Christmas tree,” an artificial tree sold by Home Depot that, for some reason, went viral on TikTok.
What’s your state’s most googled Christmas search?
Here’s our list (we’ve checked it twice):
Methodology
How did we find these strange Christmas Google searches? With a little bit of Santa’s magic, some help from the elves, and an extreme amount of espresso eggnog.
Aside from that, we used Google Trends to determine each state’s most common Christmas category search from December 24–25, 2022.
For the second column, we gathered a list of popular Christmas-related internet searches and used Google Trends to match those searches with the states googling them most from December 1-15, 2023.
That’s right. Much like Santa, we looked at your past behavior. What will you and your state be googling this year?
