Days Until Easter
Counting down to Easter Sunday, which is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the computus), so it can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25. The next occurrence is Sunday, March 28, 2027 — 172 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Easter is Christianity's celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, and its date is the most complicated in the calendar: it follows a lunisolar rule set at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, computed here with the standard Gregorian computus. Western and Orthodox churches use different calendars, so Orthodox Easter often lands one to five weeks later.
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What this tool does
Counting down to Easter Sunday, which is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the computus), so it can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25. The next occurrence is Sunday, March 28, 2027 — 172 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Easter is Christianity's celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, and its date is the most complicated in the calendar: it follows a lunisolar rule set at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, computed here with the standard Gregorian computus. Western and Orthodox churches use different calendars, so Orthodox Easter often lands one to five weeks later.
How to use the Days Until Easter
- Check Target date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2027-03-28.
- Review the Days Until Easter result and its exact-value comparison table.
- Verify assumptions before applying the result.
Formula
days remaining = (target UTC midnight − today's UTC midnight) / 86,400,000; weeks and days split the absolute day count by 7; the calendar countdown adds whole calendar months first, then leftover days
- target
- Target date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Counts whole calendar days from your device's current local date (today) to the target date, using UTC calendar days so daylight saving never shifts the result. Today itself is not counted: a target tomorrow is 1 day away. Past targets return a negative count.
Worked example
Days Until Easter: Target date (YYYY-MM-DD) = 2027-03-28. Counting down to Easter Sunday, which is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the computus), so it can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25. The next occurrence is Sunday, March 28, 2027 — 172 days away — and because the date is rule-based this page rolls to the following year automatically once the day passes. Easter is Christianity's celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, and its date is the most complicated in the calendar: it follows a lunisolar rule set at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, computed here with the standard Gregorian computus. Western and Orthodox churches use different calendars, so Orthodox Easter often lands one to five weeks later.
Inputs
- Target date (YYYY-MM-DD)2027-03-28
Result
- Days until Easter Sunday172
- Next Easter SundaySunday, March 28, 2027
- Weeks and days24 weeks, 4 days
- Status172 days to go
- Following Easter SundaySunday, April 16, 2028
Easter Sunday dates for the next six years
| Date | Weekday |
|---|---|
| 2027-03-28 | Sunday |
| 2028-04-16 | Sunday |
| 2029-04-01 | Sunday |
| 2030-04-21 | Sunday |
| 2031-04-13 | Sunday |
| 2032-03-28 | Sunday |
Results explained
- Days until Easter Sunday
- Whole calendar days from today to the next occurrence of Easter Sunday (the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the computus), so it can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25); zero on the day itself.
- Next Easter Sunday
- The calendar date of the upcoming Easter Sunday, derived from its scheduling rule rather than a fixed stored date.
- Weeks and days
- The same countdown split into whole weeks plus remaining days.
- Following Easter Sunday
- The occurrence after next, so the page still gives a target once this year's date passes.
Frequently asked questions
The next occurrence is Sunday, March 28, 2027. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the computus), so it can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25, so you can project any future year from that rule without a printed calendar.
172 days from today (the count reaches zero on the day itself and then restarts toward Sunday, April 16, 2028). This page recounts from the current date every time it loads.
No. Easter Sunday is not a US federal holiday, so federal offices, banks and mail delivery run on a normal schedule — any closures are private or state-level decisions.
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the computus), so it can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25. Easter is Christianity's celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, and its date is the most complicated in the calendar: it follows a lunisolar rule set at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, computed here with the standard Gregorian computus.
Churches hold sunrise services, families dye and hunt for eggs and fill baskets for children, and the White House Easter Egg Roll has run on the South Lawn since 1878. It is not a US federal holiday, so post offices stay open the following Monday.
Sunday, April 16, 2028. The table on this page lists the next six occurrences with their weekdays so you can plan travel, events and time off well ahead.