Taken from 2011, the days of the week for the previous 15 Christmas Days were as follows:
Wednesday 25th of December 1996
Thursday 25th of December 1997
Friday 25th of December 1998
Saturday 25th of December 1999
Monday 25th of December 2000
Tuesday 25th of December 2001
Wednesday 25th of December 2002
Thursday 25th of December 2003
Saturday 25th of December 2004
Sunday 25th of December 2005
Monday 25th of December 2006
Tuesday 25th of December 2007
Thursday 25th of December 2008
Friday 25th of December 2009
Saturday 25th of December 2010
Christmas Day fell on a Thursday in the years 2003 and 2008. This pattern occurs every 11 years due to the way the Gregorian calendar cycles through days of the week. The next time Christmas will fall on a Thursday will be in 2014, then in 2025, and so on.
There are 7 days in a week so it will take 7 years to have the same week day. 2006-2012 is only 6 years. (this does not include leap day calculations)
Yes, unless there is an interning leap day - which will move Christmas Day to Tuesday, this last happened in 2012 and every so often Christmas skips all the days of the week over a period of 28 years.
New Year's Day is one week after Christmas Day.
Christmas falls on Sunday in 2016.
New Years Day is exactly one week (7 days) after Christmas. The other way around, Christmas is 358 days after New Years Day, except in leap years, when it's 359 days.
New Year's Day and Christmas Day of the same year never fall on the same day. The 1st of January 1945 was on a Monday and the 25th of December 1945 was on a Tuesday. That is completely normal. A week after Christmas Day is New Year's Day, but that is New Year's Day of the following year. So Christmas Day 1945 would have been on the same day of the week as New Year's Day 1946, the next year. In the same way, Christmas Day 1944 and New Year's Day 1945 were on the same day of the week.
Christmas Day is great no matter what day of the week it falls on. When it is Christmas Day the day is completely different to any normal day of the week, so whatever day it is doesn't really matter.
Christmas Day 2010 is a Saturday.
Christmas Day will be on a Sunday in 2011.
Christmas Day will be on a Friday in 2020.
Christmas Day in 1981 was a Friday.