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It's the traditional countdown to Christmas...
Advent candles are a popular type of candle advent calendar marked with the days leading up to Christmas Day – you simply burn a little bit of the candle each day throughout December.
Beginning on 1st December 2024 (four Sundays before Christmas) and ending on 24th December, Advent marks the beginning of the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar year; a tradition which is popular in many European countries including England, Germany and Scandinavia.
Advent also signals the season of preparation; lights go up, shopping begins, Christmas trees are adorned with baubles, and families get ready to celebrate together. Before the rise in advent calendars, households would burn a candle a little each day as a way to help them prepare.
A common advent candle tradition is the advent wreath candle. It involves placing four candles around a wreath, where a new candle is lit on each of the four Sundays before Christmas. These candles are commonly plain, with red, green and white being popular choices.
Want to buy an advent candle for Christmas? Shop our top picks for 2024:
Heighten the excitement of the countdown to Christmas with this advent candle, featuring a festive holly design alongside the December dates.
Get your home ready for Christmas with this beautiful white advent Christmas candle. It has been decorated with delicate hand-illustrated snowflakes and would brighten up any sideboard. There's also a reindeer version if you prefer.
This advent candle offers a unique approach to the Christmas tradition. You still light the candle each day, but you simply cross off the days with a pen.
From 1st December through to Christmas Eve, light this tree shaped candle every evening and enjoy the countdown to Christmas.
Minimal, elegant and classic, Georg Jensen's 2024 Christmas advent candle is the perfect way to count down the days until Christmas Eve. We think it would look beautiful placed on a dinner table.
Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas with Alison Gardiner's classic Wise Men wax candle countdown. It also includes gold stars and white dove illustrations.
This personalised set of advent candles is rather special. The clear candle holder shows the numbered candles contained inside, and each day you just place the next numbered candle in the holder to burn. The candles come in a choice of a colour spectrum or white with charcoal.
Here's a lovely pyramid shaped candle with reindeer, holly and robin illustrations alongside a daily countdown.
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