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Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday 2027 is on 25 March 2027 · Thursday · in 178 days

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How the date is found

Maundy Thursday is 3 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
202428 March 2024Thursday
202517 April 2025Thursday
20262 April 2026Thursday
202725 March 2027Thursday
202813 April 2028Thursday
202929 March 2029Thursday
203018 April 2030Thursday
203110 April 2031Thursday
203225 March 2032Thursday

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.