Santa Tracker

Santa Tracker

Count down to Christmas and follow Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve, right on your CORSAIR XENEON EDGE. Santa Tracker shows a live night-lights map of the world as Santa visits city after city, tells you when he'll reach your house, and brings messages from Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves for each of your kids. Free.

Features

Christmas countdown

Days, hours, minutes and seconds to Christmas, plus sleeps to go

Workshop news all December: toys built, the Nice List check, reindeer readiness

On Christmas Eve morning: a sleigh launch countdown and the elves' launch checklist

Live Santa tracking on Christmas Eve

Follow the sleigh city by city on NASA's Night Lights or Blue Marble map

425 cities, each reached around local midnight, time zone by time zone

Your house is a real stop on the route: see how far away Santa is and when he'll arrive

Presents delivered, distance flown and cookies eaten, counting all night

Tap the map to switch between close-up and world view

Weather along the route

Snow falls on the map where it's snowing as Santa flies through

Conditions and temperature for each city, live on Christmas Eve

Built-in typical Christmas Eve weather when you're offline and in the demos

Messages for your kids

Add up to six kids with their name, age, one wish and Nice List status

Santa, Mrs. Claus, the elves and Comet the reindeer send messages by name

Messages never promise a specific gift, and every kid gets kind words, including the ones still "working on it"

Tap a message for a new one

Christmas morning

A Merry Christmas screen with the night's totals and the countdown to next year

Fits every slot

Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large, horizontal or vertical

Extra Large adds a Nice List report for your kids beside the map

Demo modes let you try the countdown, launch, tracking and Christmas morning any day of the year

Your own text, accent and background colors

Requirements

CORSAIR XENEON EDGE

iCUE 5.46 or newer on Windows

Internet connection for the map and live weather (without it, Santa Tracker switches to a radar-only map with built-in weather)

Getting started

Add Santa Tracker to your XENEON EDGE. Extra Large shows the map, your kids and the messages side by side.

Check Home City. It's set automatically from your PC's time zone; search for your city if it's different.

Add your kids under Kids: name, age, a wish and Nice List or Working on it.

To see the tracker before Christmas Eve, set Tracker Mode to Demo: Santa near your house. Set it back to Live for the real night.

Privacy

Kids' names, wishes and settings stay on your PC. No account, no ads, no analytics.

Map images come from NASA; the requests contain only map tile positions.

Live weather comes from Open-Meteo on Christmas Eve, for the cities just ahead of Santa. Requests contain only those cities' locations, never your home city.

Credits

Map imagery courtesy of NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (open-meteo.com), CC BY 4.0: live conditions, and the built-in Christmas Eve climate (ERA5 reanalysis, 2015-2024).

Made by Nerd Powered · nerdpowered.tech

Santa Tracker is an independent, just-for-fun app. Santa's route is a simulation, not real flight data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA or Open-Meteo. CORSAIR, iCUE, XENEON EDGE and Elgato are trademarks of their respective owners.

Santa Tracker 1.0.0: first release. A free Christmas countdown and Christmas Eve Santa tracker for the CORSAIR XENEON EDGE.

Included:

Christmas countdown with sleeps to go; sleigh launch countdown on Christmas Eve

Live tracking: 425 cities reached around local midnight, time zone by time zone, on NASA night or day imagery

Your house as a real stop: distance, arrival time, and a pointer when it's off the map

Presents, distance flown and cookies counting all night

Weather along the route: snow on the map, conditions per city (live from Open-Meteo on Christmas Eve, typical weather otherwise)

Messages from Santa, Mrs. Claus, the elves and Comet for up to six kids

Christmas morning screen with the night's totals

All sizes, horizontal and vertical; Extra Large adds the Nice List report

Holiday themes: Christmas Tree, Candy Cane, Christmas Plaid, North Pole, Midnight Blue (turn on Custom Style for the full theme)

Demo modes

Technical:

dashboard_lcd, interactive (tap the map to zoom, tap a message for a new one)

Network: gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov (map), api.open-meteo.com (weather ahead of Santa, Christmas Eve only; your home city is never sent)

No localStorage, no third-party code

Tested on XENEON EDGE, iCUE 5.52, Windows 11

Known limitations:

The route is a simulation, not real flight data

Without api.open-meteo.com access the widget uses typical weather, labelled as such