Western Easter
Sunday, April 17, 2033
Gregorian computus. Golden number 1, epact 29, Paschal full moon April 14.
Easter 2033
Easter 2033: Sunday, April 17
In 2033 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 17, 2033. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 24, 2033, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 24, 2033
Julian computus: April 11 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 2033 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 2031 (April 13). They next fall on the same day in 2034 (April 9).
Western · Apr 17
Orthodox · Apr 24
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2033
Western feasts, 2033
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 1, 2033 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 2, 2033 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 10, 2033 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 14, 2033 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 15, 2033 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 16, 2033 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 2033 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 18, 2033 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 26, 2033 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 5, 2033 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2033
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 7, 2033 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 17, 2033 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 22, 2033 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 24, 2033 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 2, 2033 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 12, 2033 | +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 2033?
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, 2022, 2044. Before 2033, Western Easter last fell on April 17 in 2022; after 2033 it next does in 2044.
Orthodox Easter on April 24 is April 11 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2033. 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, 2022, 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 2033
1Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2033 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 Thursday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 18Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 5), a Monday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2033
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=0 b=20 c=33 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=24 i=8 k=1 l=2 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=1 b=3 c=0 d=15 e=5d + 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.