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For how the date of Easter is calculated, see Date of Easter.
Table of (Gregorian) dates of Easter 2015–2030[1]
Year Full Moon Jewish Passover [note 1] Astronomical Easter [note 2] Gregorian Easter Julian Easter

2015 April 4 April 5 April 12
2016 March 23 April 23 March 27 May 1
2017 April 11 April 16
2018 March 31 April 1 April 8
2019 March 20 April 20 March 24 April 21 April 28
2020 April 8 April 9 April 12 April 19
2021 March 28 April 4 May 2
2022 April 16 April 17 April 24
2023 April 6 April 9 April 16
2024 March 25 April 23 March 31 May 5
2025 April 13 April 20
2026 April 3 April 2 April 5 April 12
2027 March 22 April 22 March 28 May 2
2028 April 9 April 11 April 16
2029 March 29 March 31 April 1 April 8
2030 April 17 April 18 April 21 April 28

  1. ^ Jewish Passover is on Nisan 15 of its calendar. It commences at sunset preceding the date indicated (as does Easter by some traditions).
  2. ^ Astronomical Easter is the first Sunday after the astronomical full moon after the astronomical March equinox as measured at the meridian of Jerusalem according to this WCC proposal.

This is a list of dates for Easter. The Easter dates also affect when Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost occur, consequently determining the liturgical year except the calendar of saints, feasts of the Annunciation and the nativities of St. John, the Baptist and Jesus. Easter may occur on different dates in the Gregorian Calendar (Western) and the Julian Calendar (Orthodox or Eastern). The accompanying table provides both sets of dates, for recent and forthcoming years — see the computus article for more details on the calculation.

Earliest Easter

Western (Gregorian)

In 1818 the Paschal Full Moon fell on Saturday, March 21 (the equinox). Therefore, the following day, March 22, was Easter. It will not fall as early again until 2285, a span of 467 years. The next earliest Easter, March 23, in that timespan occurred in 1845, 1856, 1913, and 2008, and next occur in 2160. These are gaps of 11, 57, 95 and 152 years. Easter last occurred on March 24 in 1940, and will not occur on that day again until 2391, a 451-year gap.

Orthodox (Julian)

The earliest dates for Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church between 1875 and 2099 are April 4, 1915 and April 4, 2010 (Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to 22 March in the Julian Calendar.

Latest Easter

Western (Gregorian)

In 1943 Easter fell on Sunday, April 25. The last ecclesiastical full moon preceding the Paschal did not occur until Saturday, March 20; prior to March 21, the fixed date to which the vernal equinox is assigned for the purposes of the computus, meaning the Paschal full moon did not happen until Sunday, April 18. Consequently, Easter was the following Sunday (April 25). Easter will next occur as late again in 2038—a span of 95 years.

The second latest date for Easter, April 24, occurred in 2011. The last time this occurred was in 1859 and will not happen again until 2095—spans of 152 and 84 years. Easter last occurred on April 23 in 2000, and will not occur on that day again until 2079, a span of 79 years.

Orthodox (Julian)

The latest dates for Orthodox Easter between 1875 and 2099 are May 8, 1983, and May 8, 2078 (Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to April 25 in the Julian Calendar. Orthodox Easter has never fallen on Gregorian May 7 yet; it will happen in 2051 unless these churches change to another calendar.

Beginning March 14, 2100 (February 29, 2100, in the Julian Calendar), the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars will increase to 14 days.

Western and Orthodox Easter on the same date

Despite using calendars that are apart by 13 days, Western Easter and Orthodox Easter occasionally fall on the same date, as happened in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017. For example, according to the Western (Gregorian) calendar, the first Paschal Full Moon after the Spring Equinox (March 21) fell on Monday, April 14, 2014. The following Sunday, April 20, was, therefore, Easter Day.

According to the Orthodox (Julian) calendar (which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar), the Spring Equinox also falls on March 21. However, in the Gregorian Calendar, this is April 3. The first Orthodox Full Moon after the Equinox falls on (Julian) Tuesday, April 2, 2014 (Gregorian April 15). The following Sunday, (Julian) April 7, is, therefore, Easter Day (Gregorian April 20).

Range of dates for Western and Orthodox Easter

Both calendars (Gregorian and Julian) calculate Easter as falling on dates between March 22 and April 25 on their calendars. However, because of the 13-day difference, any member of an Orthodox church would observe that the Western Easter falls between March 10 and April 12 on the Julian calendar. Conversely, any member of a Western church would observe that Orthodox Easter falls between April 4 and May 8 on the Gregorian calendar.

Week of Easter

Sundays on the dates March 22 through April 25 in the Gregorian calendar may be the 81st through 116th day of the year. They occur as the last day of ISO week number W12 through W17 and are also the 12th through 17th Sunday of the year, but these numbers mismatch in some years. They are the fourth or fifth Sunday in March or the first through fourth Sunday in April.

Weeks and ordinal Sundays of the 35 variant Gregorian Easter dates
Variant Easter Sunday Day of the year ISO week nth Sunday
1 March 22 081 082 12
2 March 23 082 083 12
3 March 24 083 084 12
4 March 25 084 085 12 12 13
5 March 26 085 086 12 13
6 March 27 086 087 12 13
7 March 28 087 088 12 13 13
8 March 29 088 089 13
9 March 30 089 090 13
10 March 31 090 091 13
11 April 1 091 092 13 13 14
12 April 2 092 093 13 14
13 April 3 093 094 13 14
14 April 4 094 095 13 14 14
15 April 5 095 096 14
16 April 6 096 097 14
17 April 7 097 098 14
18 April 8 098 099 14 14 15
19 April 9 099 100 14 15
20 April 10 100 101 14 15
21 April 11 101 102 14 15 15
22 April 12 102 103 15
23 April 13 103 104 15
24 April 14 104 105 15
25 April 15 105 106 15 15 16
26 April 16 106 107 15 16
27 April 17 107 108 15 16
28 April 18 108 109 15 16 16
29 April 19 109 110 16
30 April 20 110 111 16
31 April 21 111 112 16
32 April 22 112 113 16 16 17
33 April 23 113 114 16 17
34 April 24 114 115 16 17
35 April 25 115 116 16 17 17

Public holidays

In Canada, Hungary, Kenya, the United Kingdom (except Scotland), Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa, Slovakia, Germany, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand, Easter has two public holidays, Good Friday and Easter Monday, making a four-day weekend. The movable date of Easter sometimes brings it into conflict with other, fixed or moveable, public holidays.

  • In the United Kingdom in 2000 and 2011, the May Day bank holiday was one week after Easter Monday, causing there to be three consecutive weeks with a bank holiday. (In Scotland this did not occur as Easter Monday is not a bank holiday.) In 2011, a bank holiday was declared on Friday 29 April for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton;[2] consequently there were four bank holidays within three consecutive calendar weeks (including two in one week), creating two consecutive four-day weekends (Friday 22 – Monday 25 April and Friday 29 April – Monday 2 May), with a three-day working week in between (Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 April).
  • In Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 2008, Saint Patrick's Day (Monday 17 March) fell six days before Easter (Sunday 23 March), creating a three-day week (Tuesday 18 – Thursday 20 March). This will next happen in 2035, when Saint Patrick's Day falls on Saturday, so the public holiday is moved forward to the following Monday 19 March, again six days before Easter.
    • In the Catholic liturgical calendar, saints' feasts are not observed when they fall during Holy Week; this caused Saint Patrick not to appear in the liturgical calendar for 2008; 17 March was simply celebrated as Holy Monday. In Ireland, the Church chose to celebrate Saint Patrick on Saturday 15 March instead.[3]
  • In Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC Day is a public holiday on 25 April. In 2000 and 2011, this created a five-day weekend over Easter: in 2000, Easter Monday fell on 24 April, with the following Tuesday, 25 April, then being ANZAC Day; in 2011, ANZAC Day and Easter Monday coincided on Monday 25 April, which led to a substitute public holiday being declared in Australia for Tuesday 26 April,[4] and likely contributed to New Zealand's introduction of Mondayising legislation in 2013. In 2003 and 2014, ANZAC Day fell on the Friday after Easter, and in 2019 it fell on the Thursday after Easter, and in 2038 it will fall on Easter Sunday; the consequence is three-day working weeks immediately following the Easter weekend.
  • In Hong Kong in 2021, Easter Sunday (4 April) coincided with the Ching Ming (Qingming) Festival, leading to public holidays on Monday 5 April (the day after Ching Ming) and Tuesday 6 April (the day after Easter Monday), and a five-day weekend (Friday 2 – Tuesday 6 April).[5]
  • Easter is not a federal holiday in the United States. In North Carolina, however, it was a public holiday from 1935 to 1987.[6]
  • In Norway Easter is celebrated with public holidays on the Thursday and Good Friday before, and Easter Monday, but schools and businesses traditionally have a half-day on the Wednesday as well. The same goes for Denmark.

References

  1. ^ "Towards a Common Date for Easter". Aleppo, Syria: World Council of Churches (WCC) / Middle East Council of Churches Consultation (MECC). 10 March 1997.
  2. ^ "Royal Wedding Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom".
  3. ^ "Irish bishops move St. Patrick's Day 2008 over conflict with Holy Week". Catholic News Agency. July 19, 2007. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  4. ^ "National Holidays in Australia in 2021". Office Holidays. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  5. ^ GovHK (www.gov.hk). "GovHK: General holidays for 2021". www.gov.hk. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  6. ^ "Easter Monday in the United States". TimeandDate.com. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
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