Western Easter
Sunday, April 17, 1960
Gregorian computus. Golden number 4, epact 2, Paschal full moon April 11.
Easter 1960
Easter 1960: Sunday, April 17
In 1960 Easter falls on Sunday, April 17, 1960 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 17, 1960
Julian computus: April 4 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 17 in 1960. They last fell on the same day in 1957 (April 21). They next fall on the same day in 1963 (April 14).
Western · Apr 17
Orthodox · Apr 17
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1960
Western feasts, 1960
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 1, 1960 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 2, 1960 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 10, 1960 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 14, 1960 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 15, 1960 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 16, 1960 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 1960 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 18, 1960 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 26, 1960 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 5, 1960 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1960
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 29, 1960 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 10, 1960 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 15, 1960 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 17, 1960 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 26, 1960 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 5, 1960 | +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 1960?
April 17 is date 27 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 26 days after the earliest possible date and 8 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 153 fall on an earlier date than this one and 41 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1927, 1938, 1949, 2022, 2033, 2044. Before 1960, Western Easter last fell on April 17 in 1949; after 1960 it next does in 2022.
In the 1960s Western Easter ran from March 26 (1967) to April 22 (1962); 1960’s April 17 is the eighth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 17 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 17 is April 4 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1960. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 71 years and on a later one in 126 years; it falls on the same date in 1955, 2039, 2050.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1960
4Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1960 mod 19) + 1.
2Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 11Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 15Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 2), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1960
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=3 b=19 c=60 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=21 i=15 k=0 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 140, and 140 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 16: month 4, day 16 + 1. April 17- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=0 c=3 d=12 e=1d + e + 114 = 127, and 127 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 3: Julian April 4. Plus 13 days: April 17
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.