Your kids can get free updates on where Santa Claus is all the way through December until Christmas. This will be NORAD's 69th year tracking St. Nick.

You can call toll-free at 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723). Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s NORAD Santa Tracker.

You can also track Santa through NORAD's hotline with Verizon at 1-877-446-6723. Volunteers typically answer over 130,000 calls from Santa scouts around the world.

FILE – NORAD Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24, 2014.

Santa is expected to arrive in the United States between 9 p.m. and midnight. NORAD’s Santa Tracker website also has holiday games for kids, holiday music, and information about Santa and NORAD.

NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010.

NORAD's "Track Santa" website went live Dec. 1 but the real fun began on Christmas Eve, which is when visitors will be able to track Santa's route from 4 a.m. to midnight MST / 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. EST.

NORAD’s Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kids. By BEN FINLEY The Associated Press, Updated December 24, 2024, 12:52 p.m.

NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010.