Western Easter
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Gregorian computus. Golden number 13, epact 11, Paschal full moon April 2.
Easter 2007
Easter 2007: Sunday, April 8
In 2007 Easter falls on Sunday, April 8, 2007 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Julian computus: March 26 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 8 in 2007. They last fell on the same day in 2004 (April 11). They next fall on the same day in 2010 (April 4).
Western · Apr 8
Orthodox · Apr 8
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2007
Western feasts, 2007
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 1, 2007 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 5, 2007 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 6, 2007 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 7, 2007 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 8, 2007 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 9, 2007 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 17, 2007 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 27, 2007 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2007
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 19, 2007 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 1, 2007 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 6, 2007 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 8, 2007 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 17, 2007 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 27, 2007 | +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 2007?
April 8 is date 18 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 17 days after the earliest possible date and 17 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 91 fall on an earlier date than this one and 105 fall on a later date. 4 other years in that span share the date: 1917, 1928, 2012, 2091. Before 2007, Western Easter last fell on April 8 in 1928; after 2007 it next does in 2012.
In the 2000s Western Easter ran from March 23 (2008) to April 23 (2000); 2007’s April 8 is the fourth-earliest of the ten. Across the twenty-first century (2001–2100) Western Easter falls on April 8 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 31 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 8 is March 26 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2007. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 11 years and on a later one in 184 years; it falls on the same date in 1923, 1934, 2018, 2029, 2091.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2007
13Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2007 mod 19) + 1.
11Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 2Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 6Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 24), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2007
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=12 b=20 c=7 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=12 i=1 k=3 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 131, and 131 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 7: month 4, day 7 + 1. April 8- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=3 b=5 c=12 d=3 e=1d + e + 114 = 118, and 118 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 25: Julian March 26. Plus 13 days: April 8
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.