Christmas

When it falls

December 25 — fixed date.

Worked dates:

Year	Date
2026	December 25
2030	December 25
2050	December 25

What it shows on the island

From holidays.yml:

Palm decorated as a Christmas tree with shells and starfish, Santa hat on Johnny, stocking on the message-bottle.

Sprite

Dimensions: 56 × 65 pixels. Anchored at island position (404, 267).

This is one of the four original Sierra sprites preserved from the 1992 game. existing_sprite index 2. The asset is the original full-island scene — Johnny appears in costume, the palm or message bottle is reskinned. The four originals are New Year’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween, and Christmas; together they pin holiday IDs 1–4. See the holidays landing for the full 36-entry list including the 32 added by this port.

Palette

 #C8102E,  #1F5A2A,  #D4AF37

Three-color hint from holidays.yml. This is a guide for the codegen step and the emblem authoring pass; the actual emblem samples from the shared 16-color CLUT, and the original Sierra sprites use the original game palette directly.

Algorithm

Fixed date — no computation; the HOLIDAY_KIND_FIXED dispatch in holidayForDate compares month and day directly. See Date-algorithm core.

Emblem

No 32x32 emblem entry; the visual for this holiday is the original Sierra full-island sprite, not a sheet emblem.

Source

• Row in holidays.yml (search for id: 3 or short_name: "CHRISTMAS").
• Generated row in src/holidays_table.c.
• Original Sierra sprite (1992 game). Sprite frame index 2.