NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, tracks Santa's Christmas Eve flight around the world each year. Follow a live map of the tracker here.

Santa Claus drove his reindeer-powered sleigh over rooftops around the world on Wednesday, delivering gifts to millions of children in a magic Christmas Eve ritual that North American air defense officials say they began tracking 70 years ago.

Since then, NORAD has upgraded its Santa-tracking technology by installing Santa cams in space to monitor the jolly old elf, the agency says. "NORAD tracks Santa, but only Santa knows his route, which means we cannot predict where and when he will arrive at your house," a senior NORAD official said in a news release.

If Google had a most popular searches list on Christmas Eve, one might question, “What time does Santa Claus arrive? When does Santa land in Florida?”

Every year, millions of children follows Santa Claus' journey around the world with the NORAD Santa Tracker, which uses military radar to track Santa's flight as he delivers gifts to all the good little boys and girls. But not everyone knows that this popular Christmas tradition began over 50 years ago with a typo in a Colorado newspaper ad.

For those looking to keep tabs on the big man, here's what to know about the NORAD and Google Santa trackers for 2025.

This Christmas season marks seven decades of the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracking Santa Claus on radar as he flies his reindeer-powered

The civilian plane entered restricted airspace about 9:20 a.m., and a North American Aerospace Defense Command F-16 performed "a headbutt manuever," which is done when a jet flies directly in front of a plane to get a pilot's attention,