Western Easter
Sunday, April 16, 2028
Gregorian computus. Golden number 15, epact 3, Paschal full moon April 10.
Easter 2028
Easter 2028: Sunday, April 16
In 2028 Easter falls on Sunday, April 16, 2028 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 16, 2028
Julian computus: April 3 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 16 in 2028. They last fell on the same day in 2025 (April 20). They next fall on the same day in 2031 (April 13).
Western · Apr 16
Orthodox · Apr 16
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2028
Western feasts, 2028
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 29, 2028 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 1, 2028 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 9, 2028 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 13, 2028 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 14, 2028 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 15, 2028 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 16, 2028 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 17, 2028 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 25, 2028 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 4, 2028 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2028
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 28, 2028 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 9, 2028 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 14, 2028 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 16, 2028 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 25, 2028 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 4, 2028 | +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 2028?
April 16 is date 26 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 25 days after the earliest possible date and 9 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 145 fall on an earlier date than this one and 48 fall on a later date. 7 other years in that span share the date: 1911, 1922, 1933, 1995, 2006, 2017, 2090. Before 2028, Western Easter last fell on April 16 in 2017; after 2028 it next does in 2090.
In the 2020s Western Easter ran from March 28 (2027) to April 20 (2025); 2028’s April 16 is the eighth-earliest of the ten. Across the twenty-first century (2001–2100) Western Easter falls on April 16 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 31 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 16 is April 3 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2028. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 65 years and on a later one in 130 years; it falls on the same date in 1922, 1933, 1944, 2017, 2023.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2028
15Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2028 mod 19) + 1.
3Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 10Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 14Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 1), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2028
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=14 b=20 c=28 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=20 i=7 k=0 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 139, and 139 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 15: month 4, day 15 + 1. April 16- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=5 c=14 d=11 e=1d + e + 114 = 126, and 126 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 2: Julian April 3. Plus 13 days: April 16
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.