BEST ADVENT CALENDARS OF 2025
- AG
- Sep 29
- 6 min read
Updated: Oct 12
Our Tried and Tested Guide to this Year's Top Advent Calendars
Count down to Christmas with our ultimate guide to the most original and exciting advent calendars of 2025.
From cocktail countdowns, to heirloom seeds, luxury tea, shortbread and pampering treats to Magna Tiles, Spidey, DIY marble labyrinths, Squishmallows and sweets, as well as December treats for your V.I.Pooch, it's all here in our tried and tested guide.
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FOR THE GROWN-UPS
Moth Cocktail Advent Calendar
The return of the best-selling advent calendar from the UK’s top, luxury canned cocktail brand is something to drink about.
Count down to the big day with 24 festive cocktails, all bar-strength and ready to drink.
Behind each door of this beautifully designed, monochrome wonderland, you'll discover perfect mixes of your favourite cocktails, made with award-winning independent spirits.
Expect tipples like Espresso Martini, Margarita, Passionfruit Martini, Spicy Marg, and Negroni.
And hidden inside one calendar is a golden MOTH can. Find it and win a very big present that will last you all year long...
She Grows Veg - Heirloom Seed Advent Calendar
This is the ultimate advent gift that keeps on giving.
Beautifully packaged inside a reusable eco cotton bag, green fingers can open 25 compostable numbered envelopes each day of December.
This year’s edition features all-new varieties – so even if you grabbed one last year, you won’t get any repeats.
The She Grows Veg range includes over 300 open pollinated heirloom seed varieties that cannot be found in the shops, offering beautiful varieties never before seen in the UK. Ideal for the ardent grower, the kitchen garden novice or the experimental cook looking to grow their own ingredients.
And every part of this advent calendar is compostable or reusable, so there’s zero waste.
A limited run means once they sell out, that’s it until next year.
Pierre Marcolini - Art Deco Christmas Advent Calendar
This might be the most beautiful advent calendar we’ve ever seen.
Open up a wonderfully festive and opulent, Art Deco home to discover an explosion of geometrically harmonious fireworks and Christmas trees in gold, coral and greens.
Behind each door are 24 exclusive chocolate creations from one of the world’s most luxurious chocolatiers - the artisanal Belgian brand is famed for its unique flavours and the smoothness of its chocolate delicacies.
Here, they include pralines, powdered Champagne truffles, Grand Cru Chocolates, hearts and Petits Bonheurs.
The gourmet delights have been carefully crafted to evoke the nostalgic emotions of childhood Christmases, from gingerbread, cinnamon, orange, and caramel, to vanilla, and dreamy Casse-Noisette hazelnut spread.
It’s a magical way to count down to Christmas, savouring each extraordinary flavour… if you can limit yourself to one window.
Mariage Frères Tea Muslin Advent Calendar
What's your lucky number? The Mariage Frères Noël Lucky Calendar offers 25 lucky numbers - and all of them are winners.
Untie the satin ribbon on this stunning pink and gold calendar, and discover new assemblages and extraordinary harvests of tea every morning until the Big Day, when a very special surprise awaits you, behind door 25.
Each beautiful tea muslin contains a different flavour combination, carefully crafted by the Parisian Maison to celebrate the flavours of haute pâtisserie, from the chocolate mousse and bourbon chantilly vanilla notes of the Marco Polo to the creamy lemon yuzu, caremalised hazelenut and matcha of their new, Matcha Yuzu Christmas bûche. Tea-riffic.
Cool Yule Advent Calendar - Mad Beauty
Add a blast of festive magic to every day of the big countdown, with this wonderfully unique, fizzer-dispensing advent calendar.
Twist the dial each morning to release 23, festively fragranced fizzers to unwrap for your seasonal soak.
On Christmas Eve, open the final window to reveal a delicious tin of frozen berries lip balm.
It's a beautifully presented, chunky box of goodies bulging with fizzers which transform bath time into a fun and fragrant festive froth up. The perfect alternative to choccies.
BUY FROM MAD BEAUTY. £19.95
Walker's - The Shortbread Advent Calendar
Shortbread lovers rejoice - Walker's luxury advent calendar returns for 2025.
The limited edition calendar is beautifully packaged in traditional Walker's Shortbread tartan, and each of the 24 windows reveals a piece of all-butter shortbread in assorted festive shapes, from stars to presents.
The advent calendar is one of the much-loved Scottish brand's most popular goodies and sells out each year.
The only challenge is trying to limit yourself to one window a day...
BUY FROM OCADO. £20
FOR THE KIDS
MAGNA-TILES Advent Calendar
Children can build a playable Christmas world each day of advent, with this beautiful new advent calendar, containing 34 exclusive, festive magnetic tiles.
Window surprises include Father Christmas, train conductor, festive decorations and even a build-your-own train to carry all the presents.
The calendar opens up to reveal a magical MAGNA-TILES world, with cosy, snow-topped building facade and train tracks outside for your locomotive to chuff along.
It also features exclusive figures, mix and match heads, bodies, and headpieces to craft unique characters to bring their festive stories to life.
And as a cheeky bonus, all pieces are compatible with and complementary to all other MAGNA-TILES sets, including their Space, Pet Playhouse, Downhill Duo and Classic sets.
BUY FROM ARGOS £40
Original Squishmallows Squish-a-longs Holiday Countdown Calendar
This is the ultimate calendar for Squishmallows superfans, who can discover 24 festive themed Mini-Squish characters in the run-up to the Big Day.
Each pack contains impossibly cute, 2.5cm characters like Carrigan the Pink Christmas Tree, Falala the Pink Fawn and Den the Ginger the Gingerbread Latte, to collect, trade or display.
It even comes with a ring which little collectors can pop their Mini-Squish onto, to show off their latest festive find.
The included collector's guide makes it easy to keep track of their growing, Mini Squish collection
It's a super cute injection of squishy excitement for every morning of December.
Build Your Own Marble Labyrinth Advent Calendar
With two games packed into one ingenious calendar, get ready for double the excitement as you build your own marble labyrinth over 24 days.
The clever kit is mess-free, with no glue required - simply pop-out and slot the 148 pieces together and then celebrate on Christmas Day with your finished run, complete with a 3D tilting mechanism, to navigate your marble through the twists and turns while avoiding cleverly placed traps.
It's easy to build and handily comes with five glass marbles and a build-you-own marble storage box, so the fun lasts well beyond Christmas.
It's perfect for kids aged 6+ and provides hours of fun and entertainment, building and then playing with your run.
Spidey and His Amazing Friends - 5 Minute Stories Advent Calendar
Join Spidey and his Amazing Friends on a different bedtime story adventure every night in the countdown to Christmas, with this web-tastic advent calendar.
This beautifully presented calendar unfolds into three faces bulging with exciting pockets, to discover 24 mini, brightly coloured books about Spidey, Spin, Ghost-Spider and their friends.
A brilliant alternative to chocolate calendars, which inspires little ones to read their way through the festive period, and can be read again and again over the coming year.
BUY FROM AMAZON. £15.99
Swizzels Advent Calendar
Make Christmas extra sweet, with this wonderfully nostalgic, sugar-filled countdown.
Each door contains a Swizzels classic, from Love Hearts to Refreshers, Drumsticks and Parma Violets - perfect for kids, or people whop don't want to grow up.
BUY FROM SWIZZELS. £6.49
FOR THE POOCHES
Pooch & Mutt Advent Calendar
Santa Paws has something very special to wish a Yappy Woofmas to your V.I.Pooches, in the shape of Pooch & Mutt's Pigs in Blankets Advent Calendar.
Four-legged friends can't be left out of the big countdown, so each morning until the Big Day, they can paw open a window to discover two smoky, gourmet treats.
The limited edition treats are also grain-free, junk-free, and probiotic. Woof.
BUY FROM POOCH & MUTT. £9.99
We have been gifted samples, to provide honest and accurate tried and tested reviews. But we never feature anything we don't recommend.
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