Easter Dates 2027 to 2036, With Orthodox Easter Side by Side

Western Easter 2027 falls on Sunday, March 28, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Orthodox Easter falls five weeks later, on Sunday, May 2, according to the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (ACROD). The table below runs both dates through 2036, with the gap in days, so you can see the years they match: 2028, 2031 and 2034. For what is open on Good Friday and Easter Monday 2027, see our Easter 2027 story.

What are the Western and Orthodox Easter dates from 2027 to 2036?

Every date is a Sunday. “Western” means the Gregorian rule used in the Church of England and USCCB tables; “Orthodox” is the Julian rule with the date converted to the Gregorian calendar.

Year	Western Easter	Orthodox Easter	Gap
2027	March 28	May 2	35 days
2028	April 16	April 16	Same day
2029	April 1	April 8	7 days
2030	April 21	April 28	7 days
2031	April 13	April 13	Same day
2032	March 28	May 2	35 days
2033	April 17	April 24	7 days
2034	April 9	April 9	Same day
2035	March 25	April 29	35 days
2036	April 13	April 20	7 days

The table is computed by Fresh Calendars from the rule. The Western dates for 2027 to 2035 match the Church of England’s table of Easter dates, and 2036 is not in that table, so it is computed only. The Orthodox dates for 2027, 2028 and 2029 match the ACROD list of movable feasts; the Orthodox dates for 2030 to 2036 are computed only, because we could not reach an official table for those years.

In the ten years shown, the dates match three times, the gap is 7 days four times and 35 days three times. Our Easter 2027 story covers the Good Friday and Easter Monday dates around the 2027 Western date. If you want the day-by-day layout of that year, our 2027 calendar story shows which years repeat it.

How is the date of Easter set?

The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) gives the rule in its page “The Date of Easter.” The vernal equinox is fixed at March 21, and the ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon). Easter is the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox. USNO says Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25, and that the rule is only an approximate statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules.

The Orthodox dates in our table go past April 25, up to May 2, because they come from a different calendar, as the next section explains.

Why does Orthodox Easter fall on a different day?

USNO says the Eastern churches determine Easter with the older Julian calendar method. Here is our explanation from the rule, not a statement from USNO: the Julian calendar’s March 21 falls 13 days later than the Gregorian March 21 this century, and the Julian method also uses older lunar tables. The later equinox date and the different moon tables can push the full moon, and so the following Sunday, to another week. That gives the 7-day and 35-day gaps in the table, and the years where the two methods land on the same Sunday.

Will Western and Orthodox Easter ever be on one date?

Not by an agreed rule yet. Vatican News reported that Pope Leo and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in a joint declaration of Nov. 29, 2025, noted that in 2025 all Christians celebrated Easter on the same day, on the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. No common date has been fixed.

Print the ten-year table

The printable puts all ten years, the gap in days and the three matching years on one US Letter page. Pair it with the March printable calendars for 2027, or see the printable yearly calendar to mark the Orthodox date in May. For a single date, use When is Easter?.