Western Easter
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Gregorian computus. Golden number 6, epact 24, Paschal full moon April 18.
Easter 2019
Easter 2019: Sunday, April 21
In 2019 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 21, 2019. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 28, 2019, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Julian computus: April 15 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 2019 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 2017 (April 16). They next fall on the same day in 2025 (April 20).
Western · Apr 21
Orthodox · Apr 28
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2019
Western feasts, 2019
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 5, 2019 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 14, 2019 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 18, 2019 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 19, 2019 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 20, 2019 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 21, 2019 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 22, 2019 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 30, 2019 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 9, 2019 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2019
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 11, 2019 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 21, 2019 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 26, 2019 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 28, 2019 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 6, 2019 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 16, 2019 | +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 2019?
April 21 is date 31 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 30 days after the earliest possible date and 4 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 181 fall on an earlier date than this one and 13 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1935, 1946, 1957, 2030, 2041, 2052. Before 2019, Western Easter last fell on April 21 in 1957; after 2019 it next does in 2030.
Orthodox Easter on April 28 is April 15 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2019. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 146 years and on a later one in 51 years; it falls on the same date in 1935, 1940, 2030.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2019
6Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2019 mod 19) + 1.
24Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 18Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Thursday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 23Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 10), a Tuesday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2019
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=5 b=20 c=19 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=29 i=4 k=3 l=1 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 144, and 144 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 20: month 4, day 20 + 1. April 21- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=3 b=3 c=5 d=20 e=4d + e + 114 = 138, and 138 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 14: Julian April 15. Plus 13 days: April 28
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), Wikipedia’s list of dates for Easter (Western and Orthodox), each read September 28, 2026.