20 Best Advent Calendars (2025) for Adults & Kids
Flaviar’s Whiskey Advent Calendar 2025
This includes 24 unlabeled whiskey nips from the world at large alongside two shapely tasting glasses. There’s also a link to an app that asks sippers to rate the day’s sample before revealing its origins.
Staff writer and bourbon fan Thom Dunn has tried a lot of whiskey Advent calendars in his day, but the Flaviar’s Whiskey Advent Calendar stands out because “it actually sort of teaches you about whiskey.” Each of the 24 mystery bottles, 50 mL in size, is numbered but otherwise nondescript. Tasters sip the day’s whiskey and then rate it on a proprietary app that reveals full details. There’s always at least one very pricey whiskey in the batch, and it’s fun looking back to see how you rated it blindly, compared with your ratings for, say, Jim Beam. Beware: It always sells out.
Fly By Jing Advent Calendar
The 12-day Advent calendar contains a surprise collection of 2-ounce jars of condiments, spices, and sauces — some new, some best sellers — plus noodles and snacks, all inspired by the flavors of Sichuan and all vegan.
The 12-day Fly By Jing 2025 Advent Calendar offers a chance to taste a dozen tingly sauces inspired by China’s Sichuan province. The exact content is a surprise this year but promises to include some best sellers like Sichuan Chili Crisp and Chengdu Crunch, plus new, never-sold-before flavors. Also new this year: packages of Fly By Jing’s noodles and snacks. Just be sure to order early — last year the limited-edition calendar sold out by October 15.
Bonne Maman Advent Calendar 2025 Edition
The 24 doors in Bonne Maman’s Advent calendar house classic (four fruits, mixed berry) and exclusive spreads, jams, and honeys in darling mini jars.
Why not spread the love? Keep a calendar for yourself, and send another to faraway friends and family, as Wirecutter’s Annam Swanson does. “My siblings and I have something to share across the distance for 24 days straight,” she said. “We get to try new flavor combinations and to learn new things about one another’s preferences.” Annam has made several batches of thumbprint cookies filled with the dredges of each spread. And when the 24 adorably tiny jars are empty, they can be used to save leftover condiments, bring spices on a camping trip, display a single flower bud, store leftover paint and sequins, or stock a play kitchen.
Adagio Teas Advent Calendar
Available in versions with loose tea or tea bags, this Adagio calendar offers novel, yuletide blends for each day leading up to Christmas.
The tea obsessives on our staff have sung the praises of family-owned Adagio Teas’s Silver Needle white tea. And this Advent calendar gives heavy tea drinkers and casual sippers alike a chance to try new holiday flavors, like pomegranate grove and candy cane. The calendar comes in loose-tea and tea-bag versions, and there are clear directions (with brew temp and time) right on the package, so you don’t ruin your cuppa.
Onyx Coffee Lab Coffee Advent Calendar
This moody treasure chest contains 24 2-ounce pouches of distinctive whole-bean coffees from around the world, selected and roasted by a quality Arkansas-based roaster.
The 2025 Coffee Advent Calendar from Onyx, a hip, high-quality coffee roaster based in Arkansas, eschews the red and green kitschy Christmas vibes of most Advent calendars. Instead, it comes in a sophisticated black and gold box that opens like a treasure chest to expose what looks like an archival filing system. Each slot contains a small pouch of whole-bean coffee that Onyx has chosen and sourced from 18 regions across nine countries. Each pouch is enough to make two or three pour-overs or a medium pot of coffee. Considering the price, this is definitely a calendar for coffee fans who will appreciate tasting their way through each of the 24 different single-origin coffees, taking note of the nuanced flavors in each.
McCrea’s Caramels 2025 Advent Calendar
Behind each paper-flapped door, revelers will find one of 12 flavors of gourmet caramel from the famed Massachusetts confectioner.
The world of caramels involves more than just butter and sugar. To pique the curiosity of your sweet tooth, the McCrea’s Caramels Advent Calendar packs a dozen different flavors of caramel behind the 24 doors. The flavors range from the traditional (vanilla) to the intriguing (black lava sea salt) to the divisive (anisette), so you’ll have plenty of opportunity to pick a favorite.
See’s Candies Advent Calendar (preorder before November 3)
See’s Chocolates are a California institution, and this many-drawered Advent calendar allows candy lovers far and wide a chance to sample 24 different treats, including the company’s famed lollipops.
“This 101-year-old company nails delicious nostalgia, especially at the holidays. Though if you’re Californian, I probably don’t need to sell you on the appeal of digging through one of See’s famous assortment boxes for dark chocolate scotchmallows,” said senior staff writer Rachel Wharton. See’s Candies doesn’t use any preservatives in its confections, so you know each bite is going to be fresh and delicious. We love the mix of foil-wrapped solid milk chocolates, filled chocolates, and its famous lollipops, all of which are included in the snowy brick-facade setting of this calendar.
La Boîte à Bonbons 2025 Advent Calendar
These soft gummy candies from Montreal are fresh and perfectly chewy, and they taste like fruit rather than artificial flavoring.
Canadian candy company La Boîte à Bonbons makes perfectly chewy and pillowy gummies in surprisingly authentic fruit flavors. Each pull-out box in the La Boîte à Bonbons 2025 Advent Calendar contains three to six pieces of sweet or sour soft candies. It’s an unusually generous little handful of berries, worms, fruits, and rings. The numbers are limited, and this calendar is likely to sell out. You can order immediately and choose your delivery week from a drop-down menu.
Dandelion Chocolate 2025 Advent Calendar (preorder before November 1)
These exquisite Advent calendars are designed by a different artist every year. Inside cylindrical boxes are Dandelion chocolate confections reimagined by 25 different chocolatiers.
The Dandelion Chocolate Advent Calendar from this San Francisco–based bean-to-bar chocolate maker is pricey but absolutely stunning. Every year’s calendar looks different — this year’s galaxy-inspired design is by Belgian artist Lina Kusaite. Each little cylinder-shaped box nestled inside doubles as an ornament and contains a confection from a different chocolatier from around the country, using Dandelion’s chocolate. The selection ranges from ganaches to caramels to candied citrus, and every one is special. “I think it’s worth the price just to sample chocolates from so many great chocolatiers,” said editorial director Marguerite Preston, “but the boxes are also so sturdy and beautiful that you could totally reuse them to make your own Advent calendar in years to come.” And if sharing is just too big an ask, Dandelion also makes a double-portion Advent calendar for two.
