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Good Friday

Good Friday 2027 is on 26 March 2027 · Friday · in 179 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

Good Friday is 2 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
202429 March 2024Friday
202518 April 2025Friday
20263 April 2026Friday
202726 March 2027Friday
202814 April 2028Friday
202930 March 2029Friday
203019 April 2030Friday
203111 April 2031Friday
203226 March 2032Friday

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.