Western Easter
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Gregorian computus. Golden number 1, epact 29, Paschal full moon April 14.
Easter 2014
Easter 2014: Sunday, April 20
In 2014 Easter falls on Sunday, April 20, 2014 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Julian computus: April 7 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 20 in 2014. They last fell on the same day in 2011 (April 24). They next fall on the same day in 2017 (April 16).
Western · Apr 20
Orthodox · Apr 20
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2014
Western feasts, 2014
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 4, 2014 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 13, 2014 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 17, 2014 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 18, 2014 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 19, 2014 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 20, 2014 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 21, 2014 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 29, 2014 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 8, 2014 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2014
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 3, 2014 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 13, 2014 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 18, 2014 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 20, 2014 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 29, 2014 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 8, 2014 | +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 2014?
April 20 is date 30 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 29 days after the earliest possible date and 5 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 173 fall on an earlier date than this one and 20 fall on a later date. 7 other years in that span share the date: 1919, 1924, 1930, 2003, 2025, 2087, 2098. Before 2014, Western Easter last fell on April 20 in 2003; after 2014 it next does in 2025.
In the 2010s Western Easter ran from March 27 (2016) to April 24 (2011); 2014’s April 20 is the eighth-earliest of the ten. Across the twenty-first century (2001–2100) Western Easter falls on April 20 in 5 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 31 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 20 is April 7 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2014. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 92 years and on a later one in 102 years; it falls on the same date in 1919, 1930, 1941, 1952, 2025, 2036.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2014
1Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2014 mod 19) + 1.
29Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 14Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 18Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 5), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2014
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=0 b=20 c=14 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=24 i=3 k=2 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 143, and 143 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 19: month 4, day 19 + 1. April 20- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=5 c=0 d=15 e=1d + e + 114 = 130, and 130 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 6: Julian April 7. Plus 13 days: April 20
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.