Western Easter
Sunday, April 18, 1954
Gregorian computus. Golden number 17, epact 25, Paschal full moon April 17.
Easter 1954
Easter 1954: Sunday, April 18
In 1954 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 18, 1954. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 25, 1954, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 25, 1954
Julian computus: April 12 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1954 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1953 (April 5). They next fall on the same day in 1957 (April 21).
Western · Apr 18
Orthodox · Apr 25
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1954
Western feasts, 1954
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 2, 1954 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 3, 1954 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 11, 1954 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 15, 1954 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 16, 1954 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 17, 1954 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 18, 1954 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 19, 1954 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 27, 1954 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 6, 1954 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1954
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 8, 1954 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 18, 1954 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 23, 1954 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 25, 1954 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 3, 1954 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 13, 1954 | +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 1954?
April 18 is date 28 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 27 days after the earliest possible date and 7 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 160 fall on an earlier date than this one and 35 fall on a later date. 5 other years in that span share the date: 1965, 1976, 2049, 2055, 2060. Before 1954, Western Easter last fell on April 18 in 1897; after 1954 it next does in 1965.
Orthodox Easter on April 25 is April 12 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1954. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 124 years and on a later one in 70 years; it falls on the same date in 1943, 1965, 1976, 2038, 2049, 2060.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1954
17Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1954 mod 19) + 1.
25Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 17Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Saturday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 22Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 9), a Thursday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1954
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=16 b=19 c=54 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=28 i=13 k=2 l=6 m=1h + l − 7m + 114 = 141, and 141 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 17: month 4, day 17 + 1. April 18- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=1 c=16 d=19 e=2d + e + 114 = 135, and 135 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 11: Julian April 12. Plus 13 days: April 25
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.