Households are being reminded supermarket opening times over the Christmas and New Year’s period will be different than usual with customers having less time to pick up last minute shopping.
Tesco, Sainsbury’s Aldi, Lidl and Asda are among the major supermarket chains which have confirmed their opening times for the 2025 festive season. How will it affect your Christmas shop?
As part of Park Christmas Savings’ “Big Christmas Survey 2025”, which polled 5,000 consumers during December on their holiday spending habits, 51 per cent of households admitted to setting stricter Christmas budgets this year.
Some two-thirds of those surveyed revealed they will have to heavily rely on last-minute supermarket deals to afford Christmas this year but changing store opening times could impact their ability to secure these savings.
Major supermarkets have confirmed their opening times over Christmas
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Here is a full list of all the UK supermarket opening time changes for Christmas and New Year’s 2025:
Tesco
- Christmas Eve: 6am to 7pm (Express stores 7am to 10pm)
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: 9am to 6pm (Express stores 9am to 7pm)
- New Year’s Eve: 6am to 7pm (Express stores 7am to 10pm)
- New Year’s Day: 9am to 6pm (Express stores 8am to 10pm).
Sainsbury’s
- Christmas Eve: 6am to 7pm (convenience stores 6am to 9pm)
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: 9am to 6pm (convenience stores 9am to 9pm)
- New Year’s Eve: 10am to 7pm (convenience stores 6am to 9pm)
- New Year’s Day: 8am to 8pm (convenience stores 9am to 9pm).
Aldi
- Christmas Eve: 7am to 6pm
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: Closed
- New Year’s Eve: 8am to 6pm
- New Year’s Day: Closed.
When is Asda open over Christmas?
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ASDALidl
- Christmas Eve: 7am to 6pm
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: Closed
- New Year’s Eve: 8am to 6pm
- New Year’s Day: Closed.
Asda
- Christmas Eve: 5am to 7pm
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: 9am to 6pm
- New Year’s Eve: 7am to 7pm
- New Year’s Day: 9am to 6pm.
Co-op
- Christmas Eve: Usual opening time to 7pm (convenience stores 6am or 7am to 8pm)
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: 10am to 7pm (convenience stores 9am to 7pm)
- New Year’s Eve: Usual opening time to 7pm (convenience stores 6am or 7am to 8pm)
- New Year’s Day: 10am to 7pm (convenience stores 9am to 8pm).
Marks and Spencer customers have until 7pm on Christmas Eve to
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MARKS AND SPENCERWaitrose
- Christmas Eve: Open
- Christmas Day: Closed (This does not include Waitrose Welcome Break Service stations and Shell forecourts)
- Boxing Day: Closed
- New Year’s Eve: Open
- New Year’s Day: Closed.
Marks and Spencer
- Christmas Eve: 6am to 7pm
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: Closed
- New Year’s Eve: 8am to 7pm
- New Year’s Day: Closed.
Morrisons
- Christmas Eve: Opening hours are different depending on each location, however most will be open between 6am-6pm
- Christmas Day: Closed
- Boxing Day: 9am to 6pm
- New Year’s Eve: 7am to 7pm
- New Year’s Day: 9am to 6pm.
Ahead of December 25, Aldi was declared the most affordable Christmas dinner for this year by Raisin UK’s festive dinner price comparison analysis with an entire four-family feast coming to £14.52; £3.63 each.
The savings platform noted that UK supermarkets have already begun slashing prices on key Christmas items to entice consumers to the shelves before the big day next week.
Raisin UK’s study compared the cost of essential Christmas dinner items across nine of the UK’s leading supermarkets. The festive feast includes essentials, such as turkey, roast potatoes, stuffing, gravy, Brussels sprouts, carrots, pigs in blankets, parsnips, cranberry sauce, and Yorkshire puddings.
Notably, the latest food price inflation rate came in at 4.2 per cent with Raisin’s survey indicating that only 35 per cent of adults feel in control of their personal finances.