List of dates for 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
^ Jewish Passover is on Nisan 15 of its calendar. It commences at sunset preceding the date indicated (as does Easter by some traditions). ^ 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

computus

article for more details on the calculation.

Earliest Easter

Western (Gregorian)

In

2285

, a span of 467 years. The next earliest Easter, March 23, in that timespan occurred in

2160

. These are gaps of 11, 57, 95 and 152 years.

The earliest week by international standard reckoning is W12, and the 12th Sunday of the year is also the earliest possible Easter Sunday.

Orthodox (Julian)

The earliest dates for Easter in the

Julian Calendar

.

Latest Easter

Western (Gregorian)

In

2038—a span of 95 years. Easter may also occur on April 25 of a leap year, i.e. the 116th day of the year, but this has never occurred since the Gregorian reforms were implemented. The first time Easter will occur on April 25 in a leap year will be in 3784. This is also the only case where Easter is in ISO week

W17, otherwise all occurrences after April 18 and on this day in leap years are in W16. In several cases, Easter falls onto the latest possible, 17th Sunday of the year. The first time that Easter will fall on April 24 in a leap year will be in 4292 which is also the 115th day of the year.

The second latest date for Easter, April 24 or day 114, occurred in

2095—spans of 152 and 84 years. Easter also occurred on the 114th day of the year on April 23 in 2000

, a leap year.

Orthodox (Julian)

The latest dates for Orthodox Easter between 1875 and 2099 are May 8,

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 current 13-day difference, Western Easter falls between March 10 and April 12 on the Julian calendar. Conversely, Orthodox Easter falls between April 4 and May 8 on the Gregorian calendar.

The possible dates of Easter depend on the first day of the year and hence its dominical letter. Each type has five possible dates of Easter. Note that some feasts that depend on the date of Easter (may) occur before the leap day, e.g. Shrove Monday.

Possible dates of Easter by type of year
DL	1 January	1 March	Sundays in range
A	Sunday	Wednesday	26 March, 2, 9, 16, 23 April
BA	Saturday	Wednesday	26 March, 2, 9, 16, 23 April
B	Saturday	Tuesday	27 March, 3, 10, 17, 24 April
CB	Friday	Tuesday	27 March, 3, 10, 17, 24 April
C	Friday	Monday	28 March, 4, 11, 18, 25 April
DC	Thursday	Monday	28 March, 4, 11, 18, 25 April
D	Thursday	Sunday	22, 29 March, 5, 12, 19 April
ED	Wednesday	Sunday	22, 29 March, 5, 12, 19 April
E	Wednesday	Saturday	23, 30 March, 6, 13, 20 April
FE	Tuesday	Saturday	23, 30 March, 6, 13, 20 April
F	Tuesday	Friday	24, 31 March, 7, 14, 21 April
GF	Monday	Friday	24, 31 March, 7, 14, 21 April
G	Monday	Thursday	25 March, 1, 8, 15, 22 April
AG	Sunday	Thursday	25 March, 1, 8, 15, 22 April

Sundays on the dates March 22 through April 25 in the Gregorian calendar may be the 81st through 115th day of common years or 82nd through 116th day of leap years. 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.

Occurrences, weeks and ordinal Sundays of the 35 Gregorian Easter dates
Variant	Easter Sunday	Count	Latest^[2]	Next^[2]	DoY	Week	Sunday
1	March 22	4	1818	2285	081	W12	12th
1*	March 22	0	—	2972	082
2	March 23	2	1913	2600	082
2*	March 23	5	2008	2160	083
3	March 24	1	1799	2391	083
3*	March 24	1	1940	5280	084
4	March 25	7	1951	2035	084
4*	March 25	0	—	3792	085		13th
5	March 26	12	1989	2062	085
5*	March 26	1	1780	2084	086
6	March 27	9	2005	2157	086
6*	March 27	6	2016	2236	087
7	March 28	6	1937	2027	087
7*	March 28	4	1948	2032	088	W13
8	March 29	9	1970	2043	088
8*	March 29	3	1964	2116	089
9	March 30	14	1997	2059	089
9*	March 30	0	—	2092	090
10	March 31	16	2013	2086	090
10*	March 31	4	2024	2176	091
11	April 1	10	2018	2029	091
11*	April 1	6	1956	2040	092		14th
12	April 2	9	1961	2051	092
12*	April 2	5	1972	2056	093
13	April 3	8	1994	2067	093
13*	April 3	5	1988	2140	094
14	April 4	13	2021	2083	094
14*	April 4	1	1920	2488	095	W14
15	April 5	15	2015	2026	095
15*	April 5	3	1896	2048	096
16	April 6	12	1969	2042	096
16*	April 6	5	1980	2064	097
17	April 7	8	1985	2075	097
17*	April 7	5	1996	2080	098
18	April 8	8	2007	2091	098
18*	April 8	6	2012	2164	099		15th
19	April 9	9	2023	2034	099
19*	April 9	1	1944	2884	100
20	April 10	16	1977	2039	100
20*	April 10	0	—	2072	101
21	April 11	15	1993	2066	101
21*	April 11	4	2004	2088	102	W15
22	April 12	11	2009	2093	102
22*	April 12	5	2020	2172	103
23	April 13	8	1941	2031	103
23*	April 13	4	1952	2036	104
24	April 14	10	1974	2047	104
24*	April 14	4	1968	2120	105
25	April 15	14	2001	2063	105
25*	April 15	0	—	2096	106		16th
26	April 16	17	2017	2090	106
26*	April 16	3	1876	2028	107
27	April 17	10	2022	2033	107
27*	April 17	6	1960	2044	108
28	April 18	9	1965	2049	108
28*	April 18	5	1976	2060	109	W16
29	April 19	9	1987	2071	109
29*	April 19	5	1992	2076	110
30	April 20	11	2014	2025	110
30*	April 20	1	1924	2864	111
31	April 21	14	2019	2030	111
31*	April 21	1	1680	2052	112
32	April 22	8	1973	2057	112
32*	April 22	5	1984	2068	113		17th
33	April 23	1	1905	2079	113
33*	April 23	4	2000	2152	114
34	April 24	5	2011	2095	114
34*	April 24	0	—	4292	115
35	April 25	4	1943	2038	115
35*	April 25	0	—	3784	116	W17

(Variants with an asterisk * are in leap years.)

Public holidays

In 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;^[3] 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
  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.^[4]

In Australia and New Zealand,

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
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).^[6]

Easter is not a federal holiday in the United States. In North Carolina, however, it was a public holiday from 1935 to 1987.^[7]
In Denmark and Norway, Easter is celebrated with public holidays on the Maundy Thursday and Good Friday before, and Easter Monday, but schools and businesses traditionally have a half-day on the Wednesday as well.

References

^ "Towards a Common Date for Easter". Aleppo, Syria: World Council of Churches (WCC) / Middle East Council of Churches Consultation (MECC). 10 March 1997.
^ ^a ^b Robert H. van Gent. "Easter Sunday Frequencies". Perpetual Easter and Passover Calculator.
^ "Royal Wedding Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom". Archived from the original on 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
^ "Irish bishops move St. Patrick's Day 2008 over conflict with Holy Week". Catholic News Agency. July 19, 2007. Archived from the original on April 6, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ "National Holidays in Australia in 2021". Office Holidays. January 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
^ "GovHK: General holidays for 2021". GovHK (www.gov.hk). Archived from the original on 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
^ "Easter Monday in the United States". TimeAndDate.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.

External links

List of Easter Sunday Dates (1700–2299) by Astronomical Society of South Australia
Interactive calculator generates historical feast dates in Julian calendar prior to 1582 Gregorian reforms
Side-by-side Easter reference, Orthodox and Catholic dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars tabular data, full centuries.

[2] Jewish Passover is on Nisan 15 of its calendar. It commences at sunset preceding the date indicated (as does Easter by some traditions).

[3] 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.

[1] "Towards a Common Date for Easter". Aleppo, Syria: World Council of Churches (WCC) / Middle East Council of Churches Consultation (MECC). 10 March 1997.

[Gent-4] Robert H. van Gent. "Easter Sunday Frequencies". Perpetual Easter and Passover Calculator.

[5] "Royal Wedding Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom". Archived from the original on 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2017-04-15.

[6] "Irish bishops move St. Patrick's Day 2008 over conflict with Holy Week". Catholic News Agency. July 19, 2007. Archived from the original on April 6, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2018.

[7] "National Holidays in Australia in 2021". Office Holidays. January 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-05-31.

[8] "GovHK: General holidays for 2021". GovHK (www.gov.hk). Archived from the original on 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2021-05-31.

[9] "Easter Monday in the United States". TimeAndDate.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.

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