Play some festive music, put up the tree, hang the mistletoe... and give your computer or phone a Christmas wallpaper! If you want to get into the holiday spirit, an easy way to do so is to deck your device with a Christmas wallpaper.
To help you out, we've rounded up some of the best Christmas wallpaper websites—Santa, snowmen, stockings, and sleighs abound.
1. Unsplash
Unsplash is a great site generally for copyright and royalty-free images, but it's packed full of wonderful photos that make for perfect Christmas wallpapers.
If you're looking for clean festive imagery, Unsplash has you covered. It has sparkly Christmas trees, ornaments stylishly laid out, winter landscapes, and much more.
Since the images are all high-resolution, they're perfect for your desktop or mobile.
2. Wallpaper Abyss
It's very likely that Wallpaper Abyss has the Christmas wallpaper you want. It has festive pets, nativity scenes, illustrations, decorations, and so much more. All available in crisp high-resolution.
What's great about Wallpaper Abyss is the sheer breadth of images on offer. There's over 4,100 desktop wallpapers and 2,100 mobile wallpapers. You can filter on those (like if you only want 4K images) and sort them by factors like popularity or download count.
3. Pixabay
Pixaby is another royalty-free stock image site. But don't let "stock" put you off because these wallpapers are far from generic. There's more than 600 festive pictures from you to choose from.
Every image is in high-resolution and there are abstract trees, cartoon reindeer, photos of robins, illustrated patterns, and more.
4. WallpaperAccess
What WallpaperAccess lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Though there's only around 50 Christmas wallpapers to download, the selection is of very high quality.
There's cozy fireplace scenes, bauble close-ups, smiling gingerbread men, snowflake patterns, and more. Why not download a bunch and put them on rotation?
5. Wallpaper Cave
It can be hard to decide exactly what kind of Christmas wallpaper you want. Do you go for something vintage? Or based around Christmas films? How about a lo-fi aesthetic?
Whatever the case, Wallpaper Cave has a weird and wonderful collection of niche Christmas wallpapers. If you want a festive wallpaper featuring Dragon Ball, BTS, or Pokémon, you're sorted here.
6. WallpapersCraft
WallpapersCraft is a great website when you just want a wallpaper generally, but it's also a top choice when you want an image to decorate your desktop, phone, or tablet for the holidays.
There are over 1,300 Christmas wallpapers for you to choose from, and you can easily filter by resolution to get the perfect option for your device.
7. WallpapersWide
As the name suggests, WallpapersWide is all about wallpapers that are high-resolution or suitable for wide screens. These festive images are perfect if you have a multi-monitor setup.
In fact, the site caters for basically every resolution under the sun. Beneath your selected image you can choose what size you want it in, whether that's wide screen, tablet, mobile, and so on.
8. Zedge
Zedge's Christmas wallpaper selection is purely for phones. There's a great selection to choose from: Christmas cake, trees, lights, gifts, ornaments, and so on.
There are some wallpapers that you have to download the Zedge app to see, but you'll likely be satisfied by the free selection.
9. Wallpapers.com
If you can't trust Wallpapers.com to deliver you Christmas wallpapers, who can you turn to? Happily, there's lots to choose from here, with some categories like "Santa Claus wallpaper" and "anime Christmas wallpaper" to choose from.
If you only want desktop or mobile wallpapers, use the filters to set the image orientation. You can also choose by color and size.
10. Wallpaper Flare
Wallpaper Flare doesn't pack any punches. This site is chock-full of incredible Christmas wallpapers, whether you're hunting for something simple and sophisticated or gaudy and bright.
Handily, every wallpaper is tagged, which means you can narrow down to exactly the type of holiday wallpaper you want. Use the tags at the top of the page in conjunction with the width filters.
11. TheHolidaySpot
If there's one place you'd expect great Christmas wallpapers from, it's TheHolidaySpot. This site is dedicated to celebrating all the holidays of the year, and it has a great collection of festive wallpapers for any size device.
The only downside is that its wallpapers are all watermarked, even once you download them, which is a bit off-putting if you want a clean desktop aesthetic.
12. iLikeWallpaper
Though iLikeWallpaper brands itself as a destination for iPhone wallpapers, the Christmas pictures here will, of course, work perfectly on any mobile.
When you select a wallpaper, choose the iPhone 13 Pro to get the highest resolution. You can then crop this on your own phone as necessary.
13. Disney Parks Blog
Evidently, this choice is for the Disney fans, but who isn't in that group? For many people, Disney is intrinsically linked with Christmas, whether it's going to the theme park or watching the movies.
Thanks to the Disney Parks blog, you can combine Christmas and Disney and use these desktop and mobile wallpapers, available in many resolutions.
You won't find these wallpapers anywhere else, which is what makes them so special. There's Mickey carrying a huge candy cane, Pluto dressed as Rudolph, and Donald pushing a bauble. What's not to like?
14. Wallpaper Safari
Still not found the Christmas wallpaper of your dreams? Then give Wallpaper Safari a try. It has hundreds of wallpapers to choose from, all separated into different categories: funny, animated, nativity, and more.
Once you've selected your wallpaper, choose your nearest resolution from the links beneath the image.
Plan Your Perfect Christmas
A Christmas wallpaper might not be the highest priority of things to get sorted for the holiday season, but it'll certainly bring you a smile every time you see it.
With that done, you can turn your hand to getting all your other Christmas plans in order for a stress-free holiday.