Western Easter
Sunday, April 5, 1953
Gregorian computus. Golden number 16, epact 14, Paschal full moon March 30.
Easter 1953
Easter 1953: Sunday, April 5
In 1953 Easter falls on Sunday, April 5, 1953 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 5, 1953
Julian computus: March 23 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 5 in 1953. They last fell on the same day in 1950 (April 9). They next fall on the same day in 1957 (April 21).
Western · Apr 5
Orthodox · Apr 5
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1953
Western feasts, 1953
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 17, 1953 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 18, 1953 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 29, 1953 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 2, 1953 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 3, 1953 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 4, 1953 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 5, 1953 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 6, 1953 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 14, 1953 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 24, 1953 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1953
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 16, 1953 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 29, 1953 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 3, 1953 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 5, 1953 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 14, 1953 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 24, 1953 | +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 1953?
April 5 is date 15 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 14 days after the earliest possible date and 20 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 71 fall on an earlier date than this one and 123 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1931, 1942, 2015, 2026, 2037, 2048. Before 1953, Western Easter last fell on April 5 in 1942; after 1953 it next does in 2015.
In the 1950s Western Easter ran from March 25 (1951) to April 21 (1957); 1953’s April 5 is the fourth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 5 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 5 is March 23 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1953. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 2 years and on a later one in 195 years; it falls on the same date in 1942, 2037, 2048.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1953
16Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1953 mod 19) + 1.
14Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 30Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 3Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 21), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1953
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=15 b=19 c=53 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=9 i=13 k=1 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 128, and 128 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 4: month 4, day 4 + 1. April 5- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=1 b=0 c=15 d=0 e=1d + e + 114 = 115, and 115 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 22: Julian March 23. Plus 13 days: April 5
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.