Western Easter
Sunday, April 22, 1962
Gregorian computus. Golden number 6, epact 24, Paschal full moon April 18.
Easter 1962
Easter 1962: Sunday, April 22
In 1962 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 22, 1962. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 29, 1962, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 29, 1962
Julian computus: April 16 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1962 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1960 (April 17). They next fall on the same day in 1963 (April 14).
Western · Apr 22
Orthodox · Apr 29
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1962
Western feasts, 1962
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 6, 1962 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 7, 1962 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 15, 1962 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 19, 1962 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 20, 1962 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 21, 1962 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 22, 1962 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 23, 1962 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 31, 1962 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 10, 1962 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1962
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 12, 1962 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 22, 1962 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 27, 1962 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 29, 1962 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 7, 1962 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 17, 1962 | +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 1962?
April 22 is date 32 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 31 days after the earliest possible date and 3 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 188 fall on an earlier date than this one and 8 fall on a later date. 4 other years in that span share the date: 1973, 1984, 2057, 2068. Before 1962, Western Easter last fell on April 22 in 1832; after 1962 it next does in 1973.
In the 1960s Western Easter ran from March 26 (1967) to April 22 (1962); 1962’s April 22 is the latest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 22 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 29 is April 16 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1962. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 150 years and on a later one in 44 years; it falls on the same date in 1951, 1973, 2035, 2046, 2057, 2068.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1962
6Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1962 mod 19) + 1.
24Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 18Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Wednesday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 23Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 10), a Monday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1962
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=5 b=19 c=62 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=29 i=15 k=2 l=2 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 145, and 145 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 21: month 4, day 21 + 1. April 22- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=2 c=5 d=20 e=5d + e + 114 = 139, and 139 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 15: Julian April 16. Plus 13 days: April 29
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.