Hanukkah always starts on the Hebrew calendar date of 25 Kislev, and lasts for eight days. The Hebrew calendar does not line up with the western calendar because it has a completely different leap year system that can shift holidays each year by to 11-28 days.
Here are the coinciding secular dates for the upcoming years. The candle lightings begin on the evening BEFORE the first date:
2011: December 20-28
2012: December 8-16
2013: November 27-December 5
2014: December 16-24
2015: December 6-14
Since Hanukkah has yet to begin, the current number is 0. Hanukkah will begin at sunset on Tuesday, December 20, 2011.
0.04
4%
The next time Hanukkah will begin on the evening of December 5 will be in 2053. The last time this has happened was in 1996.
In 2013, it began on November 27.
one twentyfifth
10/25 = 0.4
It will begin at sunset on the 8th of December 2012.
4/100 or one-twentyfifth.
Chanukah began on December 21, 2008
it starts december 8th and ends december 16th
25 twentyfifths aka 1