Western Easter
Sunday, April 21, 1957
Gregorian computus. Golden number 1, epact 29, Paschal full moon April 14.
Easter 1957
Easter 1957: Sunday, April 21
In 1957 Easter falls on Sunday, April 21, 1957 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 21, 1957
Julian computus: April 8 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 21 in 1957. They last fell on the same day in 1953 (April 5). They next fall on the same day in 1960 (April 17).
Western · Apr 21
Orthodox · Apr 21
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1957
Western feasts, 1957
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 5, 1957 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 6, 1957 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 14, 1957 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 18, 1957 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 19, 1957 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 20, 1957 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 21, 1957 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 22, 1957 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 30, 1957 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 9, 1957 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1957
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 4, 1957 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 14, 1957 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 19, 1957 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 21, 1957 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 30, 1957 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 9, 1957 | +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 1957?
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, 2019, 2030, 2041, 2052. Before 1957, Western Easter last fell on April 21 in 1946; after 1957 it next does in 2019.
In the 1950s Western Easter ran from March 25 (1951) to April 21 (1957); 1957’s April 21 is the latest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 21 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 21 is April 8 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1957. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 99 years and on a later one in 96 years; it falls on the same date in 1946, 1968, 2041, 2047, 2052.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1957
1Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1957 mod 19) + 1.
29Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 14Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 18Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 5), a Thursday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1957
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=0 b=19 c=57 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=24 i=14 k=1 l=6 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=1 b=4 c=0 d=15 e=2d + e + 114 = 131, and 131 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 7: Julian April 8. Plus 13 days: April 21
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.