Easter 2074

Easter 2074: Sunday, April 15

In 2074 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 15, 2074. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 22, 2074, one week later.

Western Easter

Sunday, April 15, 2074

Gregorian computus. Golden number 4, epact 2, Paschal full moon April 11.

Orthodox Easter

Sunday, April 22, 2074

Julian computus: April 9 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.

In 2074 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 2072 (April 10). They next fall on the same day in 2075 (April 7).

Western · Apr 15
Orthodox · Apr 22
MarchAprilMay
March 1 to May 31, 2074; 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 2074, April 4 to May 8 (Julian March 22 to April 25, plus 13 days). Western Easter: April 15. Orthodox Easter: April 22.

The moving feasts of 2074

Western feasts, 2074

FeastDateFrom Easter
Shrove TuesdayTuesday, February 27, 2074−47 days
Ash WednesdayWednesday, February 28, 2074−46 days
Palm SundaySunday, April 8, 2074−7 days
Maundy ThursdayThursday, April 12, 2074−3 days
Good FridayFriday, April 13, 2074−2 days
Holy SaturdaySaturday, April 14, 2074−1 day
Easter SundaySunday, April 15, 2074Easter Sunday
Easter MondayMonday, April 16, 2074+1 day
Ascension DayThursday, May 24, 2074+39 days
PentecostSunday, June 3, 2074+49 days

Orthodox feasts, 2074

FeastDateFrom Easter
Clean MondayMonday, March 5, 2074−48 days
Palm SundaySunday, April 15, 2074−7 days
Great and Holy FridayFriday, April 20, 2074−2 days
Pascha (Easter Sunday)Sunday, April 22, 2074Easter Sunday
AscensionThursday, May 31, 2074+39 days
PentecostSunday, June 10, 2074+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 2074?

April 15 is date 25 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 24 days after the earliest possible date and 10 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 136 fall on an earlier date than this one and 56 fall on a later date. 8 other years in that span share the date: 1900, 1906, 1979, 1990, 2001, 2063, 2085, 2096. Before 2074, Western Easter last fell on April 15 in 2063; after 2074 it next does in 2085.

Orthodox Easter on April 22 is April 9 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2074. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 105 years and on a later one in 91 years; it falls on the same date in 1900, 1979, 1984, 2063.

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

The arithmetic for 2074

4Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2074 mod 19) + 1.
2Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 11Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Wednesday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 15Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 2), a Sunday.

The two algorithms, worked for 2074

Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=3 b=20 c=74 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=21 i=18 k=2 l=3 m=0
h + l − 7m + 114 = 138, and 138 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 14: month 4, day 14 + 1. April 15
Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=2 c=3 d=12 e=6
d + e + 114 = 132, and 132 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 8: Julian April 9. Plus 13 days: April 22

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.