Western Easter
Sunday, April 17, 1949
Gregorian computus. Golden number 12, epact 30, Paschal full moon April 13.
Easter 1949
Easter 1949: Sunday, April 17
In 1949 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 17, 1949. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 24, 1949, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 24, 1949
Julian computus: April 11 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1949 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1946 (April 21). They next fall on the same day in 1950 (April 9).
Western · Apr 17
Orthodox · Apr 24
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1949
Western feasts, 1949
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 1, 1949 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 2, 1949 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 10, 1949 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 14, 1949 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 15, 1949 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 16, 1949 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 1949 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 18, 1949 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 26, 1949 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 5, 1949 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1949
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 7, 1949 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 1949 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 22, 1949 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 24, 1949 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 2, 1949 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 12, 1949 | +49 days |
Each date is Easter Sunday plus or minus a fixed number of days; the offsets and their sources are on the about page. Observance varies by church and by country. Whether a feast is a day off work is a matter of each country’s law.
How early is Easter in 1949?
April 17 is date 27 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 26 days after the earliest possible date and 8 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 153 fall on an earlier date than this one and 41 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1927, 1938, 1960, 2022, 2033, 2044. Before 1949, Western Easter last fell on April 17 in 1938; after 1949 it next does in 1960.
Orthodox Easter on April 24 is April 11 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1949. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 116 years and on a later one in 77 years; it falls on the same date in 1927, 1938, 2011, 2022, 2033, 2044, 2095.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1949
12Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1949 mod 19) + 1.
30Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 13Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Wednesday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 17Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 4), a Sunday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1949
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=11 b=19 c=49 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=23 i=12 k=1 l=3 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 140, and 140 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 16: month 4, day 16 + 1. April 17- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=1 b=3 c=11 d=14 e=6d + e + 114 = 134, and 134 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 10: Julian April 11. Plus 13 days: April 24
How the date of Easter is calculated explains each letter. The dates on this page agree with the US Census Bureau table (Western), the 5ko.free.fr tables (Western and Orthodox), each read September 28, 2026.