Western Easter
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Gregorian computus. Golden number 9, epact 27, Paschal full moon April 16.
Easter 2022
Easter 2022: Sunday, April 17
In 2022 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 17, 2022. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 24, 2022, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Julian computus: April 11 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 2022 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 2017 (April 16). They next fall on the same day in 2025 (April 20).
Western · Apr 17
Orthodox · Apr 24
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2022
Western feasts, 2022
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 10, 2022 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 14, 2022 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 15, 2022 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 16, 2022 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 2022 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 18, 2022 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 26, 2022 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 5, 2022 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2022
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 7, 2022 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 2022 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 22, 2022 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 24, 2022 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 2, 2022 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 12, 2022 | +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 2022?
April 17 is date 27 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 26 days after the earliest possible date and 8 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 153 fall on an earlier date than this one and 41 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1927, 1938, 1949, 1960, 2033, 2044. Before 2022, Western Easter last fell on April 17 in 1960; after 2022 it next does in 2033.
In the 2020s Western Easter ran from March 28 (2027) to April 20 (2025); 2022’s April 17 is the ninth-earliest of the ten. Across the twenty-first century (2001–2100) Western Easter falls on April 17 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 31 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 24 is April 11 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2022. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 116 years and on a later one in 77 years; it falls on the same date in 1927, 1938, 1949, 2011, 2033, 2044, 2095.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2022
9Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2022 mod 19) + 1.
27Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 16Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Saturday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 20Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 7), a Wednesday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2022
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=8 b=20 c=22 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=26 i=5 k=2 l=0 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 140, and 140 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 16: month 4, day 16 + 1. April 17- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=6 c=8 d=17 e=3d + e + 114 = 134, and 134 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 10: Julian April 11. Plus 13 days: April 24
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), Wikipedia’s list of dates for Easter (Western and Orthodox), each read September 28, 2026.