Western Easter
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Gregorian computus. Golden number 10, epact 8, Paschal full moon April 5.
Easter 2004
Easter 2004: Sunday, April 11
In 2004 Easter falls on Sunday, April 11, 2004 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Julian computus: March 29 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 11 in 2004. They last fell on the same day in 2001 (April 15). They next fall on the same day in 2007 (April 8).
Western · Apr 11
Orthodox · Apr 11
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2004
Western feasts, 2004
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 4, 2004 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 8, 2004 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 9, 2004 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 10, 2004 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 11, 2004 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 12, 2004 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 20, 2004 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 30, 2004 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2004
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 23, 2004 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 4, 2004 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 9, 2004 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 11, 2004 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 20, 2004 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 30, 2004 | +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 2004?
April 11 is date 21 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 20 days after the earliest possible date and 14 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 109 fall on an earlier date than this one and 84 fall on a later date. 7 other years in that span share the date: 1909, 1971, 1982, 1993, 2066, 2077, 2088. Before 2004, Western Easter last fell on April 11 in 1993; after 2004 it next does in 2066.
In the 2000s Western Easter ran from March 23 (2008) to April 23 (2000); 2004’s April 11 is the fifth-earliest of the ten. Across the twenty-first century (2001–2100) Western Easter falls on April 11 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 31 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 11 is March 29 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2004. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 31 years and on a later one in 164 years; it falls on the same date in 1909, 1920, 1999, 2083, 2094.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2004
10Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2004 mod 19) + 1.
8Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 5Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 9Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 27), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2004
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=9 b=20 c=4 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=15 i=1 k=0 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 134, and 134 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 10: month 4, day 10 + 1. April 11- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=2 c=9 d=6 e=1d + e + 114 = 121, and 121 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 28: Julian March 29. Plus 13 days: April 11
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.