Large majority of Filipinos nonetheless count on ‘joyful’ Christmas in 2025

A Social Climate Stations survey finds that 68% of Filipinos suppose Christmas will probably be joyful, solely 7% predict it to be unhappy, and 25% stated it should neither be joyful nor unhappy

MANILA, Philippines – Round 68% of grownup Filipinos count on Christmas in 2025 to be joyful (masaya), a 3-percentage-point enhance from the 65% who anticipated the identical in 2024. 

In accordance with a Social Climate Stations (SWS) survey held from November 24 to 30, solely 7% of grownup Filipinos have been anticipating a tragic (malungkot) Christmas, whereas 25% stated Christmas was prone to be neither joyful nor unhappy. 

The 68% fee is decrease than the 73% in 2023 and 2022, or the primary couple of years after lockdowns attributable to COVID-19. Expectations of yuletide happiness hit a report low of fifty% in 2020 or the primary Christmas below the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Expectations of a tragic Christmas in 2025 have been down, too, stated SWS — from 10% in 2024. The report excessive for anticipated unhappiness (15%) was recorded in 2020, once more because the world was coping with the pandemic.

In accordance with SWS: “The expectation of a tragic Christmas was usually at single-digit ranges, starting from 2% to 9%. It reached double-digit ranges solely in 2004, 2009, 2011, 2020, and 2024, starting from 10% to fifteen%.”

SWS additionally famous that expectations of a cheerful Christmas barely rose throughout all areas — with the very best in Mindanao (76%), adopted by the Visayas (73%), then Stability Luzon (64%) and Metro Manila (64%). 

It’s a discovering that contrasts with slower financial progress reported within the third quarter of 2025, in addition to an unchanged inflation fee recorded in October 2025. 

These financial figures have been introduced in opposition to the backdrop of the flood management and infrastructure corruption scandal that has engulfed many corners of presidency.

What are you grateful for?

Whereas the survey didn’t ask the 1,200 respondents why they count on a cheerful Christmas, it did ask them what they have been grateful for. Respondents have been allowed one or two solutions.

The survey discovered that Filipinos have been most grateful for: 

• 45% for good well being
• 29% for household
• 28% for being alive
• 10% for God
• 6% for meals to eat (consuming thrice a day)
• 5% for dealing with each day hardships
• 4% for all of the blessings
• 4% for job/profession/earnings
• 3% for joyful life
• 3% for monetary help
• 2% for prosperity
• 2% for schooling
• 2% for peace and security

Round 1% of responses pertained to “having no worries or issues, home, and friendship/good relationship” and fewer than 1% of responses have been associated to “surviving an sickness or surgical procedure, love life/partner, materials issues, and motorbike/car.”

“Good well being” has been a prime purpose to be glad about Filipinos from 2023 to 2025, in line with SWS. “As of November 2025, it was highest within the Visayas at 55%, adopted by Metro Manila, Mindanao, and Stability Luzon, at 42% every,” the survey agency famous. – Rappler.com