When is Easter Sunday 2026?
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This year, Easter Sunday will fall on 05TH APRIL 2026 for Catholic and Protestant churches, and on 12TH APRIL 2026 for Orthodox churches.
Jewish Passover (Pessah) starts on April 1 and ends on April 9, 2026.
Easter for Catholic and Protestant churches 2026: Sunday 05th April
2027: Sunday 28th March
2028: Sunday 16th April
2029: Sunday 1st April
| Orthodox Easter 2026: Sunday 12th April
2027: Sunday 2nd April
2028: Sunday 16th April
2029: Sunday 8th April
| Jewish Passover (Pesach) 2026: from April 1 to April 9
2027: from April 21 to April 29
2028: from April 10 to April 18
2029: from March 30 to April 7
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How Is the Date of Easter Determined?
Unlike Christmas and All Saints’ Day, the date of Easter changes from year to year, it being a "moveable feast".
Its exact date depends on the lunar calendar. Easter falls on the first Sunday following the full moon in the springtime (after the Vernal Equinox), in other words, the Sunday after the fourteenth day of the first ecclesiastical lunar month of the spring. The lunar calendar is different to our normal calendar (28 day cycles), meaning that the calculation is a complex one and there are many scientific formulae used to work it out.
That said, Easter always occurs between March 22nd at the very earliest and April 25th at the latest.
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