How many days until Valentine's Day?

Valentine's Day, 14 February, lands at the tail end of the Australian summer, and this countdown tracks the exact time remaining until it arrives. Restaurants book out fast, flower prices climb in the days beforehand, and plenty of people leave the reservation later than they should.

Because it's still solidly summer weather across most of the country, Valentine's Day here often leans towards an evening picnic, a sunset dinner outdoors, or a trip to the coast rather than anything indoors and candlelit purely out of necessity. Long, warm evenings make outdoor plans genuinely realistic rather than optimistic.

This page is used for exactly two kinds of planning: getting organised early enough to book a table or order flowers before everyone else does, and — for the more last-minute among us — working out precisely how many hours are left to sort something out.