Easter 2027.

Easter and Holy Week dates, 2027

Western Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21, using the church's tabular moon rather than the astronomical one. For 2027 that gives March 28. Every other date below is a fixed number of days from that Sunday.

Lent runs from Ash Wednesday, February 10, through Holy Saturday, March 27: 46 calendar days, or 40 days if the six Sundays in between are not counted, which is how most Western churches count it. Ascension Thursday falls 39 days after Easter and Pentecost 49 days after; some U.S. parishes move Ascension to the following Sunday, May 9, so check your own church.

Why 2027 has an early Easter

March 28 is near the early end of the possible range (March 22 to April 25). In 2027 the first full moon after the spring equinox date of March 21 falls on March 22, so Easter is the first Sunday after it, six days later. That is why Lent starts as early as February 10 and the whole Easter season, through Pentecost, finishes by May 16.

Western and Orthodox Easter, 2026 to 2030

Orthodox churches that use the Julian calendar for Easter calculate the same rule on a calendar that is currently 13 days behind, and then convert the result to the Gregorian date. The two Easters coincide in some years and are up to five weeks apart in others.

Is Easter a day off in the U.S.?

No. Easter Sunday is not a federal holiday, and neither is Easter Monday. Good Friday, March 26, 2027, is an NYSE market holiday but not a federal one. Many schools and some employers give Good Friday or the Monday after, and some states observe Good Friday for state offices, so the answer depends on your employer, school district or state. For the federal calendar and pay dates around it, see the federal pay period calendar 2027.

Using the date finder

Enter any year from 1583 to 4099 to get Western and Orthodox Easter and the Holy Week dates, and add a date to count the days until Easter. For the full tool with notes on the algorithm, see the Easter date calculator; daylight saving time in 2027 begins March 14, two weeks before Easter, per the daylight saving time dates calculator.

Sources

Dates computed by the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm for Western Easter and Meeus's Julian algorithm for Orthodox Easter, both from Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd ed., chapter 8. Results for 2024 to 2030 match the published Western and Orthodox Easter dates. No U.S. agency publishes an Easter schedule because Easter is a religious observance, not a legal holiday; the federal holiday list is at OPM, Federal Holidays, and it does not include Easter. Checked November 1, 2026.