Fortnite Winterfest 2025 start date — here's what we know about this year's Christmas event

Fortnite Winterfest 2025 has finally been confirmed, and better yet, it's launching later this week. Epic Games just dropped a teaser for the upcoming Holiday event, showing Harry Potter Christmas stockings, a tree, and a roaring fire.

Players are currently working their way through Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 1, which shook up the map and many of the game's core systems. While we all wait for the next Season of Fortnite, there are the Winterfest 2025 celebrations to tide us over well into the new year. With huge updates like these, it's no wonder that Fortnite continues to rank highly in our best crossplay games list.

Here's the Fortnite Winterfest 2025 start date, and everything announced so far for the upcoming event. So far, we know that there will be a Harry Potter tie-in and a return of the Holiday log fire ...