Western Easter
Sunday, April 3, 1994
Gregorian computus. Golden number 19, epact 17, Paschal full moon March 27.
Easter 1994
Easter 1994: Sunday, April 3
In 1994 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 3, 1994. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, May 1, 1994, four weeks later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, May 1, 1994
Julian computus: April 18 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1994 the two Easters are 28 days apart: Orthodox Easter is four weeks after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1990 (April 15). They next fall on the same day in 2001 (April 15).
Western · Apr 3
Orthodox · May 1
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1994
Western feasts, 1994
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 15, 1994 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 16, 1994 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 27, 1994 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, March 31, 1994 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 1, 1994 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 2, 1994 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 3, 1994 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 4, 1994 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 12, 1994 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 22, 1994 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1994
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 14, 1994 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 24, 1994 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 29, 1994 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, May 1, 1994 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 9, 1994 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 19, 1994 | +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 1994?
April 3 is date 13 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 12 days after the earliest possible date and 22 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 56 fall on an earlier date than this one and 138 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1904, 1983, 1988, 2067, 2078, 2089. Before 1994, Western Easter last fell on April 3 in 1988; after 1994 it next does in 2067.
In the 1990s Western Easter ran from March 30 (1997) to April 19 (1992); 1994’s April 3 is the third-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 3 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on May 1 is April 18 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1994. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 165 years and on a later one in 29 years; it falls on the same date in 1910, 1921, 1932, 2005, 2016, 2089.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1994
19Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1994 mod 19) + 1.
17Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 27Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 30Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 17), a Saturday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1994
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=18 b=19 c=94 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=6 i=23 k=2 l=6 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 126, and 126 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 2: month 4, day 2 + 1. April 3- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=6 c=18 d=27 e=0d + e + 114 = 141, and 141 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 17: Julian April 18. Plus 13 days: May 1
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.