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New Year's Day 2027 falls on Friday, 1 January, with New Year's Eve on Thursday, 31 December 2026. To send New Year stickers on WhatsApp, pick a pack below, open it in the free Sticko app and tap Add to WhatsApp — it then sits under the sticker icon in every chat. Install the pack before the evening itself; networks are at their busiest at midnight.
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New Year sticker packs for WhatsApp
New Year 2027 dates
| Day | Date |
|---|---|
| Christmas Day | Friday, 25 December 2026 |
| New Year's Eve | Thursday, 31 December 2026 |
| New Year's Day | Friday, 1 January 2027 |
New Year wishes are the single heaviest messaging moment of the year, and the minutes either side of midnight are when delivery slows down. A sticker is small — a static one is capped at 100 KB — so it goes out when a photo or video will not, which is part of why sticker greetings took over from forwarded images.
Sending New Year stickers at midnight
- Install the pack you want a day or two early, from the grid below.
- Open the chats you will send to before midnight, so the sticker tray is already warm.
- Tap the sticker icon, pick the sticker, and send. A sticker needs no caption and no compression.
A pack holds between 3 and 30 stickers, so one New Year pack is usually enough for every chat you want to greet — there is no need to install five of them.
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WhatsApp only accepts sticker packs from an installed app, so the last step always happens outside the browser. Sticko is free on Android and iPhone, and adds any pack to WhatsApp in a couple of taps.