12 doorsWhat’s inside →The Best 2026 Advent Calendars for Coworkers
Advent calendars for coworkers are Secret Santa money — snacks, sweets, a drink a day — and 42 of the 57 here are new for 2026. Under fifteen dollars: Haribo, Kinder Bueno, Milka's Oreo and Favourites boxes, Lindt's three mini calendars — Lindor, Weihnachtsmarkt and Weihnachtszauber — and Cadbury's Dairy Milk. For the desk with an energy drink on it, Red Bull's 24 cans; for the office that drinks, BrewDog's 24 beers and Hawkstone's brewery-shaped box; for the break room, Jelly Belly's Hogwarts trivia game and Kosmos's EXIT escape calendar, both played as a table. Ankerkraut's 24 spices and KoRo's snack box are for the colleague who cooks; Essence, Catrice, Balea and Isana are the drugstore beauty calendars under twenty dollars. The shortlist below names one box in each kind, and the numbers band says what a door costs.
57 calendars, 42 new for 2026, most of them 24 doors. Full stats
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24 doorsWhich advent calendar for coworkers to get
One for each way of asking. Every row clears the same bar — rated 4 out of 5 or better by an editor, or where none has scored it, an editors’ pick or contents worth more than the box — and nothing older than last season.
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The 15 editions below are from 2025 and before. Most are sold out; the pages stay for the prices, the door lists and what changed year to year.
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One for each way of asking, further down.
A first pick, the best value, under $50, the splurge — and a person to ask if yours is not there.
Make one insteadA calendar that travels in a link.
Photos, videos and notes behind each door. Free, no account.
Why trust the numbersWe opened 641 of these boxes.
Counted, priced and photographed by hand before any of it went up.
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24 doorsHow to choose an advent calendar for coworkers
- Step 01
Match the doors to the days
47 of the 57 here have 24 doors — a 24-door box opens one a day from 1 December to Christmas Eve. The others run 12 and 25, and the shorter ones start partway through the month: a 12-door box opens on 13 December. For someone who will not open one every day, or a gift that will arrive late, fewer doors is the better fit, not the lesser calendar. Every start date
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Know which season you are buying
42 of the 57 here are 2026 editions, and 7 are last season's — still sold, often discounted, and with the contents already on the page. The 8 older than that are listed for the record, not for buying. A brand's page keeps every edition together, so check whether the box you are looking at is this year's before you compare prices.
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Start from the ones we have opened
8 of the 57 here carry an editors' pick — the chip above the grid narrows the shelf to those — and 45 have a written score. Those are the boxes somebody on this site has actually judged. The rest are listed because they exist, not because we are recommending them; being on this page is not a verdict. How we review
Food for coworkers
All 42 food boxes42 of the 57 calendars tagged for coworkers are food. Cadbury Dairy Milk Adult 2026 leads — rated 4/5 by our editors; Ankerkraut Gewürz 2026 and enerBiO & friends Adventskalender 2026 follow.
Still looking?
If you cannot decide, get Cadbury Dairy Milk Adult 2026
The best value among the calendars here that we have rated this season, rated 4/5, £10, 24 doors. 348 g of Dairy Milk for 10 GBP is three and a half standard calendars, with a full bar on the last day. Chunks rather than shapes, and milk only.
24 doorsCalendars for coworkers, by the numbers How each one is countedEvery figure is computed from the records at build time and says how many it is drawn from. Door price is the price on the box over its doors; the value multiple is what the contents come to at retail over that price; full size is the retailer’s own marking. Dollar figures use rough rates and are for ranking only. Where a record cannot support a figure, it is left out rather than guessed.The definitions, one by one →
42 calendars for coworkers for 2026, a median of $1.16 a door, 30 brands we had never listed before.
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| food | Ankerkraut Gewürz 2026 | €29.99 | 24 | €1.25 | — | — | 4/5 |
| beauty | Catrice Hause of Gold 2026 | €39.95 | 24 | €1.66 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| toys | EXIT The Magic of Christmas 2026 | €24.99 | 24 | €1.04 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| Under $50 | Cadbury Dairy Milk Adult 2026 | £10 | 24 | £0.42 | — | — | 4/5 |
| — | enerBiO & friends Adventskalender 2026 | €24.99 | 24 | €1.04 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| — | essence Baked With Love 2026 | €29.95 | 24 | €1.25 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| — | Grind Coffee Pod 2026 | £29.95 | 25 | £1.20 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| — | Hotel Chocolat Everything 2026 | £29.95 | 24 | £1.25 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| — | Isana 2026 | €16.99 | 24 | €0.71 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
| — | Manhattan Merry Christmas 2026 | €44.95 | 24 | €1.87 | 1 | — | 4/5 |
Median price $28 across the 42 priced; door price across 42. Rough dollar rates, for ranking only.
What is behind the doors — 330 items across 23 boxesSnack73Chocolate48Makeup40Tea36Seasoning24Skincare24
How big the boxes are — all 5724 doors4725 doors712 doors3
Frequently asked questions
Are there advent calendars for coworkers in 2026/2027?
Yes. 42 of the 57 advent calendars for coworkers we list are 2026 editions. The other 15 are 2025 and 2024 boxes, which some retailers still stock.
How many doors do advent calendars for coworkers have?
Most advent calendars for coworkers have 24 doors — 47 of the 57 we list. The rest run 12 and 25.
Which brands make advent calendars for coworkers?
43 brands make the 57 advent calendars for coworkers we list. Lindt has the most with 4, then Red Bull with 3 and Balea with 2. The other 40 have one or two each.
What kind of advent calendar should I get for coworkers?
The shelf for coworkers is food (74%), beauty (17%) and self-care (7%). The shortlist at the top of this page names the box to get in each kind, and the picks under How to choose give three per kind; the kind's own archive holds the rest.
Which advent calendars for coworkers say what is inside?
23 of this season's 42 come with the maker's full door list — Ankerkraut Gewürz 2026, Catrice Hause of Gold 2026 and enerBiO & friends Adventskalender 2026 among them. The rest are bought on the brand's record, and each page says which it is.