Easter 2072

Easter 2072: Sunday, April 10

In 2072 Easter falls on Sunday, April 10, 2072 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.

Western Easter

Sunday, April 10, 2072

Gregorian computus. Golden number 2, epact 10, Paschal full moon April 3.

Orthodox Easter

Sunday, April 10, 2072

Julian computus: March 28 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.

Both Easters fall on April 10 in 2072. They last fell on the same day in 2071 (April 19). They next fall on the same day in 2075 (April 7).

Western · Apr 10
Orthodox · Apr 10
MarchAprilMay
March 1 to May 31, 2072; each line is a Sunday. Upper band: the dates Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25. Lower band: the dates Orthodox Easter can take in 2072, April 4 to May 8 (Julian March 22 to April 25, plus 13 days). Western Easter: April 10. Orthodox Easter: April 10.

The moving feasts of 2072

Western feasts, 2072

FeastDateFrom Easter
Shrove TuesdayTuesday, February 23, 2072−47 days
Ash WednesdayWednesday, February 24, 2072−46 days
Palm SundaySunday, April 3, 2072−7 days
Maundy ThursdayThursday, April 7, 2072−3 days
Good FridayFriday, April 8, 2072−2 days
Holy SaturdaySaturday, April 9, 2072−1 day
Easter SundaySunday, April 10, 2072Easter Sunday
Easter MondayMonday, April 11, 2072+1 day
Ascension DayThursday, May 19, 2072+39 days
PentecostSunday, May 29, 2072+49 days

Orthodox feasts, 2072

FeastDateFrom Easter
Clean MondayMonday, February 22, 2072−48 days
Palm SundaySunday, April 3, 2072−7 days
Great and Holy FridayFriday, April 8, 2072−2 days
Pascha (Easter Sunday)Sunday, April 10, 2072Easter Sunday
AscensionThursday, May 19, 2072+39 days
PentecostSunday, May 29, 2072+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 2072?

April 10 is date 20 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 19 days after the earliest possible date and 15 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 102 fall on an earlier date than this one and 92 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1955, 1966, 1977, 2039, 2050, 2061. Before 2072, Western Easter last fell on April 10 in 2061; after 2072 it next does in 2107.

Orthodox Easter on April 10 is March 28 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2072. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 24 years and on a later one in 170 years; it falls on the same date in 1904, 1966, 1977, 1988, 2061, 2067.

The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.

The arithmetic for 2072

2Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2072 mod 19) + 1.
10Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 3Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 7Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 25), a Thursday.

The two algorithms, worked for 2072

Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=1 b=20 c=72 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=13 i=18 k=0 l=6 m=0
h + l − 7m + 114 = 133, and 133 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 9: month 4, day 9 + 1. April 10
Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=0 c=1 d=4 e=2
d + e + 114 = 120, and 120 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 27: Julian March 28. Plus 13 days: April 10

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.