25K+ people found their calendar here last season. Find yours for 2026.
10 calendars, 6 new for 2026, most of them 24 doors. Full stats
John Lewis sells three kinds of calendar, and the Beauty one is the reason to look: for 2026, forty-one products behind 25 drawers with a FOREO UFO 3 Mini and Sisley, La Mer, Estée Lauder and Shiseido among them, 250 GBP against John Lewis's 1,160 GBP figure, the strongest of the UK department-store boxes on paper, rated 4.5 from us. The others are the drinks calendars, Wine & Fizz at 120 GBP (24 mini bottles) and the 2024 Wine and Fizz boxes, and a twelve-door Scented Candle & Oils calendar at 120 GBP.
10 calendars, 6 new for 2026, most of them 24 doors. Full stats
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25 doorsEditors’ pickThe 4 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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24 doors| Edition | Doors | Price | Items | Full size | Value | Rating | Against the year before |
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| John Lewis Beer & Snacks Advent Calendar 2026 | 24 | £90 | 24 | — | — | 3.5/5 | — |
| John Lewis Cocktail Advent Calendar 2026 | 24 | £130 | 24 | — | — | 3.5/5 | — |
| John Lewis Wine Advent Calendar 2026 | 24 | £100 | 24 | — | — | 3.5/5 | down 17% to £100; 24 items, from 18; none of the 24 items carried over |
| John Lewis Fragrance 2026 | 12 | £99 | 13 | 0 of 13 | — | 4/5 | — |
| John Lewis Scented Candle 2026 | 12 | £99 | 12 | — | — | 4/5 | down 18% to £99; none of the 12 items carried over |
| John Lewis Beauty 2026 | 25 | £250 | 41 | 25 of 36 | 4.6× | 4.5/5 | — |
| John Lewis Wine & Fizz 2025 | 24 | £120 | 18 | — | — | — | — |
| John Lewis Scented Candle & Oils2025 | 12 | £120 | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| John Lewis Wine2024 | 24 | — | 24 | — | — | — | — |
| John Lewis Fizz2024 | 24 | — | 13 | — | — | — | first edition we hold |
This season's box is listed; its record carries no release date.
5 boxes from other makers with a live John Lewis listing we track, each linked to its own page and price.
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24 doorsTwenty of the beauty box's 41 are unmarked deluxe sizes, several at 5 to 10 ml, and one door's contents can differ from box to box: the two things to know. John Lewis prints the list, which puts it ahead of Harrods on that count; the beauty page puts it beside Selfridges, Liberty and Fortnum's.
6 of the 10 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
6 of the 10 here are 2026 editions, and 2 are last season's — still sold, often discounted, and with the contents already on the page. The 2 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.
1 of the 10 here carry an editors' pick — the chip above the grid narrows the shelf to those — and 6 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
The best value among the calendars here that we have rated this season: contents worth 4.6× the price, rated 4.5/5, £250, 25 doors. Forty-one products including a FOREO UFO 3 Mini and Sisley, La Mer and Shiseido skincare, valued at 4.6 times the 250 GBP price, make it the strongest of the UK department-store boxes on paper. Twenty of the 41 are unmarked deluxe sizes, several at 5 to 10 ml, and one door's contents can differ from box to box.
25 doorsEditors’ pick6 john lewis calendars for 2026.
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| John Lewis Beauty 2026 | £250 | 25 | £10 | 38 | 4.6× | 4.5/5 |
| John Lewis Fragrance 2026 | £99 | 12 | £8.25 | 12 | — | 4/5 |
| John Lewis Scented Candle 2026 | £99 | 12 | £8.25 | 8 | — | 4/5 |
| John Lewis Beer & Snacks Advent Calendar 2026 | £90 | 24 | £3.75 | 13 | — | 3.5/5 |
| John Lewis Cocktail Advent Calendar 2026 | £130 | 24 | £5.42 | 9 | — | 3.5/5 |
| John Lewis Wine Advent Calendar 2026 | £100 | 24 | £4.17 | 12 | — | 3.5/5 |
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The 2026 editions, John Lewis Beer & Snacks Advent Calendar 2026, John Lewis Cocktail Advent Calendar 2026 and John Lewis Wine Advent Calendar 2026, are out and listed with live retailer prices.
For 2026 there are 6: John Lewis Beer & Snacks Advent Calendar 2026 at £90, John Lewis Cocktail Advent Calendar 2026 at £130 and John Lewis Wine Advent Calendar 2026 at £100 on the box; from A$238.81 in Australia and £90 in the UK at the shops we track. Earlier editions: £120 in 2025.
24 items behind 24 doors: Brew York Coney Hazy Session IPA, Brew York Time Travelling Taxi Hazy IPA, Toast New Dawn Session IPA, Toast Grassroots Pale Ale and Big Smoke Brew Co Pilsner and more — the full list is on its page.
The 2026 boxes are listed in Australia and the UK: eBay in Australia from A$238.81 and John Lewis and eBay in the UK from £90. The buy table on each calendar's page carries the live prices.
For John Lewis Beer & Snacks Advent Calendar 2026, we rated it 3.5/5. Fourteen named craft beers from Beavertown, Brew York, Tiny Rebel and four more, with ten good bar snacks between them.
