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Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday 2027 is on 28 March 2027 · Sunday · in 181 days

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  • Lent10 February – 20 March
  • Holy Week21 March – 27 March
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  • Advent28 November – 24 December
  • Christmastide25 December – 31 December

How the date is found

Easter Sunday is the day of Easter itself 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
202431 March 2024Sunday
202520 April 2025Sunday
20265 April 2026Sunday
202728 March 2027Sunday
202816 April 2028Sunday
20291 April 2029Sunday
203021 April 2030Sunday
203113 April 2031Sunday
203228 March 2032Sunday

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.