Western and Orthodox churches

Easter dates

Easter 2027 is on Sunday 28 March; Orthodox Easter is on Sunday 2 May.

Easter 2028 is on Sunday 16 April, for Western and Orthodox churches alike.

Easter this year (2026)

Orthodox Easter is 1 week after Western Easter.

Orthodox Easter is 5 weeks after Western Easter.

Western Easter, kept by the Catholic and Protestant churches, is the Sunday after the church’s full moon on or after 21 March on the Gregorian calendar, so it falls between 22 March and 25 April.
Orthodox Easter is worked out the same way on the Julian calendar and given here as its Gregorian date, between 4 April and 8 May. In 2017, 2025, 2028, 2031 and 2034 both fall on the same day.
Ascension is 39 days after Easter, on a Thursday, though some Catholic dioceses keep it on the following Sunday; Pentecost is seven weeks after Easter.
The Russian, Serbian, Georgian and Jerusalem churches keep Christmas on the Julian calendar, on 7 January; the Greek, Romanian and Bulgarian churches keep it on 25 December and Easter on the Orthodox date.

Year	Ash Wednesday	Good Friday	Easter	Ascension Day	Pentecost	Orthodox Easter	Orthodox Pentecost
2016	10 Feb	25 Mar	27 Mar	5 May	15 May	1 May	19 Jun
2017	1 Mar	14 Apr	16 Apr	25 May	4 Jun	16 Aprsame day	4 Jun
2018	14 Feb	30 Mar	1 Apr	10 May	20 May	8 Apr	27 May
2019	6 Mar	19 Apr	21 Apr	30 May	9 Jun	28 Apr	16 Jun
2020	26 Feb	10 Apr	12 Apr	21 May	31 May	19 Apr	7 Jun
2021	17 Feb	2 Apr	4 Apr	13 May	23 May	2 May	20 Jun
2022	2 Mar	15 Apr	17 Apr	26 May	5 Jun	24 Apr	12 Jun
2023	22 Feb	7 Apr	9 Apr	18 May	28 May	16 Apr	4 Jun
2024	14 Feb	29 Mar	31 Mar	9 May	19 May	5 May	23 Jun
2025	5 Mar	18 Apr	20 Apr	29 May	8 Jun	20 Aprsame day	8 Jun
2026	18 Feb	3 Apr	5 Apr	14 May	24 May	12 Apr	31 May
2027next	10 Feb	26 Mar	28 Mar	6 May	16 May	2 May	20 Jun
2028	1 Mar	14 Apr	16 Apr	25 May	4 Jun	16 Aprsame day	4 Jun
2029	14 Feb	30 Mar	1 Apr	10 May	20 May	8 Apr	27 May
2030	6 Mar	19 Apr	21 Apr	30 May	9 Jun	28 Apr	16 Jun
2031	26 Feb	11 Apr	13 Apr	22 May	1 Jun	13 Aprsame day	1 Jun
2032	11 Feb	26 Mar	28 Mar	6 May	16 May	2 May	20 Jun
2033	2 Mar	15 Apr	17 Apr	26 May	5 Jun	24 Apr	12 Jun
2034	22 Feb	7 Apr	9 Apr	18 May	28 May	9 Aprsame day	28 May
2035	7 Feb	23 Mar	25 Mar	3 May	13 May	29 Apr	17 Jun
2036	27 Feb	11 Apr	13 Apr	22 May	1 Jun	20 Apr	8 Jun

Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter and Easter Monday the day after; Orthodox Good Friday is two days before Orthodox Easter.