Winter and New Year Emoji Combos: 140+ Sets to Copy
Winter runs longer than any other season on a profile. Christmas is one day, but the cold is four months, so a winter set earns its place in a bio in a way a holiday set never does.
Take โ๏ธ๐ค๐ฏ๏ธ if you want one that runs from December through February without naming a holiday. Everything else is grouped by mood below, and copies in one click.
Why winter sets last longer than Christmas ones
A ๐ in a bio has a hard expiry date and starts looking neglected on 27 December. A โ๏ธ does not. That is the practical difference, and it is why the sets here deliberately avoid the tree, the gifts and the Santa hat.
The other reason is that winter covers two completely different moods. December is bright, social and full of lights. January and February are quiet, cold and indoors. Using a December set in late January is the seasonal equivalent of leaving the decorations up.
If you want the actual Christmas sets, our Christmas guide has them, and this article picks up either side.
Snow and frost
๐ฉต Light Blue Heart does more for a winter set than any other character, and it only landed in the 15.0 release in 2022. Before that the closest thing was ๐, which is too saturated and reads as a flag or a football team rather than as cold. If a winter set of yours looks wrong, that heart is usually the fix.
โ๏ธ and โ are two separate characters. The first is a snowman with snowflakes around him, the second is a snowman without. Nobody will notice, but the version with snow renders slightly busier at small sizes, so the plain one is better in a bio.
Hibernation and indoors
The largest group by actual use, because most of winter is spent inside looking at the weather rather than in it.
These overlap with the year-round cozy sets on purpose, since the difference between a cozy autumn and a cozy winter is only the weather emoji you put next to them. Our cozy collection goes considerably further if that is the mood you actually want.
Fireside
Notice that every set here pins ๐ฅ to something physical. On its own the flame has been slang for impressive or attractive for well over a decade, and a lone ๐ฅ in a winter caption will be read that way. ๐ชต is the cheapest fix: a log next to a flame can only mean one thing. ๐งฃ and ๐๏ธ do the same job more softly.
December against January
Worth separating, because they are not the same season socially even though they are the same weather.
December sets can be bright and busy. There are lights everywhere, people are seeing each other, and a caption with ๐ชฉ or ๐ฅ in it matches what is actually happening.
January sets should be quieter by two or three notches. The same ๐ชฉ in mid-January reads as someone who has not noticed the party ended. Swap to ๐ฏ๏ธ and the identical layout suddenly fits the month.
February is quieter still and is where ๐ฉถ and ๐ซ๏ธ come into their own. If you only change your bio twice all winter, change it once at New Year and once in early February.
Snow sports
โธ๏ธ the ice skate is the one that works outside sport too, because skating reads as an outing rather than as athletics. ๐ฅ the curling stone is in here for completeness and because it is genuinely one of the funniest emoji to use unexpectedly.
Nights and lights
The shortest days of the year are also the prettiest, and the emoji set is unusually good at this one.
๐ the night with stars is the one to reach for rather than ๐ or ๐๏ธ, because it is the only city emoji where the sky is doing the work. Paired with โ๏ธ it reads as a cold clear evening, which is a very specific thing to be able to say in two characters. The celestial sets go further on the stargazing page.
The grey middle of winter
January and February, when nobody is celebrating anything. Almost no one makes sets for this and it is the longest stretch of the season.
๐ฉถ Grey Heart, also from the 15.0 release, is what makes this group possible. Before it existed the only neutral heart was ๐ค, which reads as clean and bright, so a genuinely overcast mood had to borrow ๐ค and came out far heavier than intended. Grey is the honest one.
New Year's Eve
๐ the twelve o'clock clock face is the detail most sets miss. There is a separate emoji for every hour, and using the right one is the kind of small accuracy that makes a caption feel considered rather than assembled.
New Year's Day and resolutions
A different mood entirely from the night before, and the sets should reflect that.
๐ฑ is the best resolution emoji available. A seedling implies something early and fragile that might not survive, which is a considerably more honest picture of a January goal than ๐ช or ๐ฅ. Sets built on it age better through February, when the gym ones start to look optimistic.
The New Year topic page collects the full set, and the combos page has more arrangements.
One rule that fixes most winter sets
Pick one temperature word and one comfort word. Temperature is โ๏ธ ๐จ๏ธ ๐ฅถ ๐ง ๐๏ธ or ๐ซ๏ธ. Comfort is โ ๐ฏ๏ธ ๐งฃ ๐งฆ ๐๏ธ or ๐ฒ. One of each, then a heart to close it.
โ๏ธโ๐ค follows it. ๐จ๏ธ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฉต follows it. โ๏ธ๐ง๐ฉถ does not, because it is two temperature words and no comfort, which is why it reads as bleak rather than seasonal. Almost every winter set that feels off is missing the second half.
Browse more of them on the winter combos page or build your own from the winter emoji list.
Sets for the group chat
Lower stakes, so these can be funnier and longer than anything going in a bio.
๐ฅถ the freezing face is the single most used winter emoji in casual messaging and it barely appears in curated sets, because it is not pretty. It is, however, what people actually send in February.
Winter bios that survive until spring
Three emoji, no holiday markers, nothing that expires on a date:
Swap these out in March. Everything else on this page is fine to leave until then. The winter topic page has the individual glyphs if you would rather build your own.
Sets for the last week of December
The strange gap between Christmas and New Year, when nobody knows what day it is.
Nothing marks this week in the emoji set, which is part of why it feels shapeless. ๐๏ธโ is about as close as you can get and it usually raises a smile for exactly that reason.
Winter aesthetics, by name
If you follow a particular look rather than the weather, the sets diverge sharply.
- Coquette winter: ๐โ๏ธ๐ค
- Dark academia winter: ๐๐ฏ๏ธ๐ค
- Clean girl winter: ๐ค๐งด๐ฉต
- Goth winter: ๐คโ๏ธ๐ธ๏ธ
- Cottagecore winter: ๐งถ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฒ
- Y2K winter: ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ฉต
The weather emoji stays the same in all six and the aesthetic comes entirely from what sits beside it, which is the clearest demonstration of how these sets actually work. We broke the aesthetics down individually in combos sorted by vibe.
Text decoration for winter bios
Not emoji at all, and it survives places where emoji are stripped:
โ โ and โ are three separate snowflake characters from the dingbat block, and unlike โ๏ธ they take your text colour instead of rendering as a blue emoji tile. That makes them the better choice in a username or a display name. The full set is on the snowflake symbols page.
Sets for a snow day
The one genuinely joyful thing about winter weather, and it deserves its own group.
โ๏ธ๐ซ๐ซ states the whole situation in three characters, which very few emoji sets manage without a caption to lean on. ๐จ๏ธ๐ is the other underrated one, because dogs in snow is a real category of content and nobody builds a set for it.
Reading the weather emoji correctly
Six weather glyphs cover winter and people routinely pick the wrong one.
- ๐จ๏ธ is snow falling from a cloud. This is the one you usually want.
- โ๏ธ is a single snowflake, an object rather than weather. Better as decoration.
- โ๏ธ is plain overcast, with no precipitation implied.
- ๐ซ๏ธ is fog, which reads as still and quiet rather than cold.
- ๐ฌ๏ธ is wind, the only one that suggests being uncomfortable outdoors.
- ๐ฅถ is a face, not weather, and belongs in a message rather than a bio.
The distinction that matters most is ๐จ๏ธ against โ๏ธ. If your set is about a day, use the cloud. If it is about a look, use the flake.
Worth noting that the indoor sets get used far more than the snow ones, because most people are not out in it. A set about being warm inside describes the actual experience of winter for almost everyone, whereas snow covers a handful of days a year and, for a large share of the planet, none at all.
None of the weather glyphs carry temperature on their own either. Snow reads as cold, but fog and cloud read as merely grey, so a set built only from those will not feel wintry however overcast it looks. That is the job the scarf and the hot drink are quietly doing in nearly every set on this page.
What breaks
- ๐ฉต light blue and ๐ฉถ grey hearts are from 2022, recent enough that an un-updated phone shows an empty box. They are also the two most useful emoji on this page, which is unfortunate.
- ๐๏ธ โธ๏ธ ๐ฏ๏ธ and ๐ท carry a variation selector, so some plain-text fields strip the colour and render them flat black and white.
- The gendered runner and yoga figures are joiner sequences and split on old software. The non-gendered ๐ and ๐ง never do.
- Safe on anything: โ๏ธ โ โ๏ธ ๐ฟ ๐ฅ โ ๐งฃ ๐ฅ ๐ and every original heart colour.
A rectangle on arrival points at the receiving device rather than wherever the emoji came from, and our troubleshooter for that explains the cause. For what comes after the thaw, the ocean and beach sets are the other end of the year, and the emoji calendar maps out everything in between.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best winter emoji combo?+
โ๏ธ๐ค๐ฏ๏ธ works from December through February without naming a holiday, so it does not expire the way a Christmas set does. For something with more colour, ๐ฉต๐งฃโ reads as cold and cosy at the same time.
Why do my winter sets look wrong in blue?+
You are probably using ๐, which is too saturated and reads as a flag or a sports team. ๐ฉต Light Blue Heart, added in the 15.0 release in 2022, is the one that actually reads as cold.
What is the difference between โ๏ธ and โ?+
โ๏ธ is a snowman with snowflakes falling around him and โ is a snowman without. Nobody will notice the difference, but the plain one renders cleaner at bio size because it is less busy.
What emoji works for New Year resolutions?+
๐ฑ the seedling. It implies something early and fragile that might not survive, which is more honest about a January goal than ๐ช or ๐ฅ, and it still looks right in February when the gym sets have started to age.
Can I leave a winter combo in my bio all season?+
Yes, as long as it has no holiday markers. Sets built on โ๏ธ, ๐ฉต, ๐งฃ, ๐ฏ๏ธ and โ run from December to March. Anything with a tree, a gift or a Santa hat starts looking neglected on 27 December.
Which winter emoji are too new to be safe?+
๐ฉต light blue heart and ๐ฉถ grey heart both arrived in 2022, so a phone that has not had a system update since then shows an empty box. They are unfortunately also the two most useful emoji for winter sets.
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