When Does Winterfest Start in Fortnite This Year?

When does Winterfest start in Fortnite? The current season has been a lot of fun to jump into, but there’s an event coming up soon. For the last few years, the launch of new Chapters has come really close to the beginning of Winterfest. The holiday event for Fortnite. It seems Chapter 7 will move into Winter pretty soon too.

The game gets quite a few events through the year. While Halloween is the biggest for collabs and gameplay, Winterfest has its own charms. Especially if you’re mainly trying to unlock free Fortnite skins! There’s normally quite a few given out for Winterfest.

Now the new Chapter is here, we’re expecting the event to begin quite soon. We have a good idea of the date that Winterfest starts this year.

When Does Winterfest Start?

When does Winterfest start this year? It looks like it’ll be quite soon. But looking at the past few release dates, it looks like it should start around the 14th of December. This will mean we’ll get two weeks of the normal Chapter 7, then Winterfest takes over!

We won’t know the exact release date for a little while still. Or really until the patch notes hit. The next Fortnite update should clear things up. This will likely be the last one before Winterfest starts.

However, we do have a good idea of one collab that’s coming thanks to Fortnite leaks.

Harry Potter

One controversial Fortnite collab is lined up to start with Winterfest 2025. According to leakers, Fortnite X Harry Potter will arrive this winter. With a Mythic and other things in the game like cosmetics.

Harry Potter is a collaboration that is probably more well known for its outspoken author at this point. Between this, accusations of AI being all over Chapter 7’s map, and the CEO of Epic speed-running annoying his userbase, it’s a going to be a weird few weeks for Fortnite.

Winterfest 2025

That’s roughly the answer to when does Winterfest start, but what’s coming? Winterfest is a yearly event in the game, it’s been going on since the earliest Fortnite seasons, or at least those in Winter. It has been the event that brought in some of the strangest content, like completely broken planes for a while.

Winterfest is the Christmas event. This one covers the winter break for Epic. So, if there’s bugs, they’re often stuck in the game for quite a while. But we do get content throughout the period.

Instead of the game being static over winter, Winterfest queues a ton of content. Each day over the break we get a different present to open. These give free items. In the past, it has been multiple free Fortnite skins as well as other random items leftover throughout the year.

This year, we’re expecting the new map to get covered in snow! It’s a little plain right now, so that’ll make things a bit more exciting. We also get unvaults for Fortnite items like the snowball launcher and icy grappler. Although, the exact items vary from year to year. Some years we even see planes come back, in increasingly nerfed form.

The big part of Winterfest might be the free skin. This year, we’re expecting Hatsune Miku to get a new Christmas style! She’s already one of the best Fortnite skins so it’s great to get another version of her.

Of course, we won’t know exactly what’s coming until the date when Winterfest starts! Then we should learn all about this year’s rewards.