Is the day of Jesus Christ's birth really December 25? That is doubtful since there was a census going on at the time which is the reason his earthly father and pregnant mother traversed to a different town than where they actually lived. They lived in Nazareth yet their place of origin was Bethlehem and that's where the Roman government demanded that they go to be counted. The census was typically done soon after harvesting the crops so that would not have occurred this late