How many days until Easter?

What is left until Easter

Weeks and days
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Weekdays left (Mon–Fri)
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Weekends left
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Mondays left
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Sleeps
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Hours left
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Counted from today in your time zone; weekdays and weekends are the days after today and before Easter. Public holidays are not subtracted.

Easter dates, 2027–2036

YearDateWeekdayGood Friday – Easter Monday
2027March 28, 2027SundayMarch 26 – March 29
2028April 16, 2028SundayApril 14 – April 17
2029April 1, 2029SundayMarch 30 – April 2
2030April 21, 2030SundayApril 19 – April 22
2031April 13, 2031SundayApril 11 – April 14
2032March 28, 2032SundayMarch 26 – March 29
2033April 17, 2033SundayApril 15 – April 18
2034April 9, 2034SundayApril 7 – April 10
2035March 25, 2035SundayMarch 23 – March 26
2036April 13, 2036SundayApril 11 – April 14

About Easter

Western Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that falls on or after March 21. The “full moon” here is not the astronomical one but a value from tables, which is why we compute Easter with the standard Gregorian algorithm (Meeus, Jones and Butcher) rather than from the sky. Easter can fall on any date from March 22 to April 25; in 2027 it is March 28 and in 2028 April 16.

Good Friday, two days before, is a public holiday in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and Spain in our data; Easter Monday, the day after, in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Hong Kong and France. In the United States neither is a federal holiday.

Orthodox churches compute Easter with the same kind of rule applied to the Julian calendar, so their Easter usually falls later and only sometimes on the same Sunday. The dates on this page are the Western (Catholic and Protestant) Easter.

How early or late is Easter?

Over the next ten years Easter falls between March 25 and April 21. Between 1900 and 2099 the earliest Easter is March 23 and the latest April 25. March 22, the earliest possible date, last fell in 1818 and next falls in 2285. Because Easter moves, so do the holidays tied to it: Ascension Day (39 days after) and Whit Monday (50 days after) are public holidays in France, for example.

How the countdown works

The countdown runs to midnight at the start of Easter in your time zone, so the day count drops by one at your midnight and reaches zero on the day itself. It uses your device’s time zone and our server-corrected clock, so it stays right even if your device clock is a few seconds off. The day after Easter, the page moves on to the next year’s date by itself.

“Sleeps” is the number of nights left, the way children count: on the evening before the day it is one sleep.

Questions

How many days until Easter?
The countdown above shows the days left until Western Easter Sunday in your time zone.
When is Easter 2028?
Sunday, April 16, 2028. Good Friday is April 14 and Easter Monday April 17.
Is Easter Monday a holiday?
In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Hong Kong and France, yes (in our official holiday data). It is not a US federal holiday, and not a general holiday under the Canada Labour Code.
Why does the date of Easter change every year?
Because it depends on a lunar cycle (the ecclesiastical full moon after March 21) as well as on the week, so it can move by up to five weeks from one year to the next.

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