Western Easter
Sunday, April 9, 1950
Gregorian computus. Golden number 13, epact 11, Paschal full moon April 2.
Easter 1950
Easter 1950: Sunday, April 9
In 1950 Easter falls on Sunday, April 9, 1950 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 9, 1950
Julian computus: March 27 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 9 in 1950. They last fell on the same day in 1946 (April 21). They next fall on the same day in 1953 (April 5).
Western · Apr 9
Orthodox · Apr 9
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1950
Western feasts, 1950
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 21, 1950 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 22, 1950 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 2, 1950 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 6, 1950 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 7, 1950 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 8, 1950 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 9, 1950 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 10, 1950 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 18, 1950 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 28, 1950 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1950
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 20, 1950 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 2, 1950 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 7, 1950 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 9, 1950 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 18, 1950 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 28, 1950 | +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: Holidays lists each country’s public holidays, off the open Nager.Date database.
How early is Easter in 1950?
April 9 is date 19 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 18 days after the earliest possible date and 16 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 96 fall on an earlier date than this one and 99 fall on a later date. 5 other years in that span share the date: 1939, 1944, 2023, 2034, 2045. Before 1950, Western Easter last fell on April 9 in 1944; after 1950 it next does in 2023.
In the 1950s Western Easter ran from March 25 (1951) to April 21 (1957); 1950’s April 9 is the sixth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 9 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 9 is March 27 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1950. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 17 years and on a later one in 177 years; it falls on the same date in 1939, 1961, 1972, 2034, 2045, 2056.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1950
13Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1950 mod 19) + 1.
11Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 2Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 6Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 24), a Thursday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1950
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=12 b=19 c=50 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=12 i=12 k=2 l=6 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 132, and 132 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 8: month 4, day 8 + 1. April 9- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=4 c=12 d=3 e=2d + e + 114 = 119, and 119 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 26: Julian March 27. Plus 13 days: April 9
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.