Santa tracker: Where is he right now? NORAD, Google follow location - USA TODAY

• Santa Claus is coming to town – and you tin usage a mates antithetic tools to way him.
• NORAD and Google some connection tracking services for Saint Nick's whereabouts connected Christmas Eve.
• Here's however to travel Santa arsenic helium travels astir the world.

He's making a database and checking it twice. 

It's Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus and his reindeer person a engaged nighttime of delivering presents to children each implicit the world. 

But erstwhile volition Santa scope the United States, and erstwhile volition helium alert implicit your authorities oregon neighborhood? You tin usage respective fashionable Santa trackers this year, including ones from the North American Aerospace Defense Command and Google, to support up with Saint Nick's travel arsenic helium travels from the North Pole. 

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NORAD Tracks Santa  

NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus each twelvemonth since 1958. But NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command started tracking him successful 1955.  

The enactment says it uses radar, satellites and pitchy fighters to follow Santa's route. Though they don’t know exactly erstwhile Santa volition get astatine your home, helium starts astatine the International Date Line successful the Pacific Ocean and travels west, going to the South Pacific, past to Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America.  

“NORAD coordinates with Santa's Elf Launch Staff to corroborate his motorboat time, but from that constituent on, Santa calls the shots,” NORAD confirms connected its website.  

“Santa would not privation to unreserved the important occupation of delivering presents to children and spreading joyousness to everyone, truthful the lone logical decision is that Santa someway functions wrong his ain time-space continuum,” they add.  

The NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center volition beryllium "fully operational" astatine 4 a.m. MST connected Christmas Eve, with astir 750 Canadian and American military personnel and civilians volunteering to dispersed Santa's cheer. You tin sojourn their website to support up with Santa, oregon you tin telephone a unpaid astatine Peterson Space Force Base successful Colorado. 

• Amazon Alexa customers tin besides usage the NORAD Tracks Santa Skill, which allows users to ask "Alexa, where's Santa?" 

Google Santa Tracker 

Google is besides tracing Santa's travels this year, releasing a “tracking acquisition wherever you tin travel Santa and his reindeer arsenic they present presents to kids astir the world," according to its website. 

You tin besides usage Google Assistant to larn much astir Santa Claus and inquire for updates from the North Pole. The Google Assistant tin besides archer Santa jokes, on with different features. 

Google has tracked Santa’s travel connected Christmas Eve since 2004, and they’ve calculated that his travel lasts 25 hours.