This is a list of dates for Easter. The Easter dates also affect when Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost occur in a given year. 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 and the 81st day of the year, was Easter. The next Easter that early will be 2285. The second earliest Easter, March 23, in that timespan occurred in 1845, 1856, 1913, and 2008. Easter will next occur on March 23 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 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. The second earliest date for Orthodox Easter, March 23 in the Julian Calendar, last occurred in 1953, and will next occur in 2037. Both of these dates are equivalent to April 5 in the Gregorian Calendar.
Latest Easter Western (Gregorian) In 1943, Easter fell on Sunday, April 25, the 115th day of the year. The last ecclesiastical full moon preceding the Paschal did not occur until 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. 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 2011. The last time this occurred before was in 1859 and it will not happen again until 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, 1983, and May 8, 2078 (Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to April 25 in the Julian Calendar. The last time Orthodox Easter has fallen on Julian April 24, the second latest date, was in 1888 which is equivalent to May 6, 1888 in the Gregorian Calendar. The next time Orthodox Easter will fall on April 24 in the Julian Calendar is 2051, which is equivalent to May 7, 2051 in the Gregorian Calendar. Until this date, Orthodox Easter has never fallen on Gregorian May 7.
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 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2025 and will next occur in 2028. For the 20th and 21st centuries, this can happen between Gregorian dates April 4th to April 25th, as this is where the Western and Orthodox date ranges overlap.
In 2028, according to the Western (Gregorian) calendar, the first Paschal Full Moon on or after the Ecclesiastical Spring Equinox (March 21, Gregorian) will fall on Monday, April 10, 2028.Dates for the Gregorian Paschal Full Moon from 1582 to 2299 are tabulated in Hermann Grotefend, Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung des deutschen Mittelalters un der Neuzeit (Fünfte Auflage) (Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1922), Tafel VII (see also p. 5d)online link. The Golden Number of 2028 is 15, the Gregorian Paschal Full Moon will fall on April 10. The next Sunday, Easter Sunday, will be April 16.
In 2028, according to the Julian calendar (which is currently 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar), the first Paschal Full Moon on or after the Ecclesiastical Spring Equinox (March 21, Julian [= April 3, Gregorian]) will fall on Friday, April 1, 2028 (April 14, Gregorian).Dates for the Julian Paschal Full Moon are tabulated in Hermann Grotefend, Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung des deutschen Mittelalters un der Neuzeit (Fünfte Auflage) (Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1922), Tafel VI (see also p. 5d)online link. The Golden Number of 2028 is 15, the Julian Paschal Full Moon will fall on April 1. The next Sunday, Easter Sunday, will be April 3 (April 16, Gregorian).
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 9 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 Earliest Early Median Late Latest D Thursday Sunday 22 March 29 March 5 April 12 April 19 April ED Wednesday E Saturday 23 March 30 March 6 April 13 April 20 April FE Tuesday F Friday 24 March 31 March 7 April 14 April 21 April GF Monday G Thursday 25 March 1 April 8 April 15 April 22 April AG Sunday A Wednesday 26 March 2 April 9 April 16 April 23 April BA Saturday B Tuesday 27 March 3 April 10 April 17 April 24 April CB Friday C Monday 28 March 4 April 11 April 18 April 25 April DC Thursday
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 Next DoY Week Sunday 1 March 22 4 1818 2285 081 W12 12th 1* 0 2972 082 2 March 23 2 1913 2600 2* 5 2008 2160 083 3 March 24 1 1799 2391 3* 1 1940 5280 084 4 March 25 7 1951 2035 4* 0 3792 085 13th 5 March 26 12 1989 2062 5* 1 1780 2084 086 6 March 27 9 2005 2157 6* 6 2016 2168 087 7 March 28 6 1937 7* 4 1948 2032 088 W13 8 March 29 9 1970 2043 8* 3 1964 2116 089 9 March 30 14 1997 2059 9* 0 2092 090 10 March 31 16 2013 2086 10* 4 2024 2176 091 11 April 1 10 2018 2029 11* 6 1956 2040 092 14th 12 April 2 9 1961 2051 12* 5 1972 2056 093 13 April 3 8 1994 2067 13* 5 1988 2140 094 14 April 4 13 2021 2083 14* 1 1920 2488 095 W14 15 April 5 16 2037 15* 3 1896 2048 096 16 April 6 12 1969 2042 16* 5 1980 2064 097 17 April 7 8 1985 2075 17* 5 1996 2080 098 18 April 8 8 2007 2091 18* 6 2012 2164 099 15th 19 April 9 9 2023 2034 19* 1 1944 2884 100 20 April 10 16 1977 2039 20* 0 2072 101 21 April 11 15 1993 2066 21* 4 2004 2088 102 W15 22 April 12 11 2009 2093 22* 5 2020 2172 103 23 April 13 8 1941 2031 23* 4 1952 2036 104 24 April 14 10 1974 2047 24* 4 1968 2120 105 25 April 15 14 2001 2063 25* 0 2096 106 16th 26 April 16 17 2017 2090 26* 3 1876 2028 107 27 April 17 10 2022 2033 27* 6 1960 2044 108 28 April 18 9 1965 2049 28* 5 1976 2060 109 W16 29 April 19 9 1987 2071 29* 5 1992 2076 110 30 April 20 12 2025 2087 30* 1 1924 2864 111 31 April 21 14 2019 2030 31* 1 1680 2052 112 32 April 22 8 1973 2057 32* 5 1984 2068 113 17th 33 April 23 1 1905 2079 33* 4 2000 2152 114 34 April 24 5 2011 2095 34* 0 4292 115 35 April 25 4 1943 2038 35* 0 3784 116 W17 (Variants with an asterisk * are in leap years.)
While the Gregorian computus yields a cycle of 5.7 million years, a complete Dionysian paschal cycle lasts just 532 years, so more than three repetitions have already passed since the First Council of Nicaea.