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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday 2027 is on 10 February 2027 · Wednesday · in 135 days

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  • Christmastide1 January – 10 January
  • Ordinary Time11 January – 9 February
  • Lent10 February – 20 March
  • Holy Week21 March – 27 March
  • Eastertide28 March – 16 May
  • Ordinary Time17 May – 27 November
  • Advent28 November – 24 December
  • Christmastide25 December – 31 December

How the date is found

Ash Wednesday is 46 days before Easter in the Western calendar. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, computed by the Gregorian rule (Meeus’s algorithm, no lookup table).

Every year

YearDateDay
202414 February 2024Wednesday
20255 March 2025Wednesday
202618 February 2026Wednesday
202710 February 2027Wednesday
20281 March 2028Wednesday
202914 February 2029Wednesday
20306 March 2030Wednesday
203126 February 2031Wednesday
203211 February 2032Wednesday

Easter: Meeus/Jones/Butcher and Meeus’s Julian algorithm (Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 1991). Feast offsets as in the General Roman Calendar and the Orthodox Triodion/Pentecostarion.