List of dates for Easter

This is alist of dates for Easter. TheEasterdates also affect whenAsh Wednesday,Maundy Thursday,Good Friday,Holy Saturday, theFeast of the AscensionandPentecostoccur in a given year. Easter may occur on different dates in theGregorian Calendar(Western) and theJulian Calendar(Orthodox or Eastern). The accompanying table provides both sets of dates, for recent and forthcoming years—see thecomputusarticle for more details on the calculation.
In1818thePaschal Full Moonfell on Saturday, March 21 (theequinox). Therefore, the following day, March 22 and the 81st day of the year, was Easter. It will not fall as early again until2285, a span of 467 years.
The next earliest Easter, March 23, in that timespan occurred in1845,1856,1913, and2008. Easter will next occur on March 23 in2160. These are gaps of 11, 57, 95 and 152 years.
The earliestweek by international standard reckoningis W12, and the 12th Sunday of the year is also the earliest possible Easter Sunday.
The earliest dates for Easter in theEastern Orthodox Churchbetween1875and2099are April 4,1915and April 4,2010(Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to 22 March in theJulian Calendar. The next earliest date for Orthodox Easter, March 23 in the Julian Calendar, last occurred in1953, and will next occur in 2037. Both of these dates are equivalent to April 5 in the Gregorian Calendar.
In1943, Easter fell on Sunday, April 25, the 115th day of the year. The lastecclesiastical full moonpreceding thePaschaldid not occur until March 20; prior to March 21, the fixed date to which the vernal equinox is assigned for the purposes of thecomputus, 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 in2038—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 inISO weekW17, 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 in2011. The last time this occurred before was in1859and it will not happen again until2095—spans of 152 and 84 years. Easter also occurred on the 114th day of the year on April 23 in2000, a leap year.
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, is1793, which is equivalent to May 5, 1793 in the Gregorian Calendar. The next time Orthodox Easter will fall on April 24 in the Julian Calendar is2051, which is equivalent to May 7, 2051 in the Gregorian Calendar. Until this date, Orthodox Easter has never fallen on Gregorian May 7.
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).
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 itsdominical 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.
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 ofISO week numberW12 through W17 and are also the 12th through 17th Sunday of the year, but these numbers mismatch in some years.
(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.
InHungary,Kenya, theUnited Kingdom(exceptScotland),Hong Kong,Australia,New Zealand,South Africa,Slovakia,Germany,Serbia,Sweden,SwitzerlandNamibia,Malawi,Botswana,ZambiaandZimbabwe, Easter has two public holidays,Good FridayandEaster Monday, making a four-day weekend. The movable date of Easter sometimes brings it into conflict with other, fixed or moveable, public holidays.