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When is Easter 2027?
Easter Sunday, counted down to midnight in your time zone. The year menu shows 2026, 2027 and 2028.
Easter Sunday 2027
151 days
| Date | Sunday, March 28, 2027 |
| Weeks | 21 weeks, 4 days |
| Weekends before it | 21 |
| Business days (federal holidays off) | 101 |
| Easter Sunday 2026 | Sunday, April 5, 2026 |
| Easter Sunday 2027 | Sunday, March 28, 2027 |
| Easter Sunday 2028 | Sunday, April 16, 2028 |
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that falls on or after March 21, the rule the Western churches have used since the Gregorian reform of 1582. The full moon in that rule is a calendar value from church tables, not the astronomical one, which is why Easter can differ from a moon chart by a day or two. The result always lies between March 22 and April 25. For the coming years it gives Sunday, April 5, 2026, then Sunday, March 28, 2027, one of the earlier dates, and Sunday, April 16, 2028. Easter is not a federal holiday and, being a Sunday, closes nothing by itself. The date that matters for markets is the Friday before: Good Friday is not on the federal list, so offices, post offices and banks open as usual, but the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq close for the day. In 2027 that means no trading on Friday, March 26, 2027, while payments keep moving through the Federal Reserve.
Easter and the dates that hang on it
Easter 2027
Sunday, March 28, 2027
| Ash Wednesday | Wed, Feb 10 |
| Palm Sunday | Sun, Mar 21 |
| Good Friday (markets closed) | Fri, Mar 26 |
| Pentecost | Sun, May 16 |
Dates computed and checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method
Easter Sunday and the days around it, 2026 to 2030
| Year | Ash Wednesday | Good Friday | Easter Sunday | Pentecost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wed, Feb 18 | Fri, Apr 3 | Sun, Apr 5 | Sun, May 24 |
| 2027 | Wed, Feb 10 | Fri, Mar 26 | Sun, Mar 28 | Sun, May 16 |
| 2028 | Wed, Mar 1 | Fri, Apr 14 | Sun, Apr 16 | Sun, Jun 4 |
| 2029 | Wed, Feb 14 | Fri, Mar 30 | Sun, Apr 1 | Sun, May 20 |
| 2030 | Wed, Mar 6 | Fri, Apr 19 | Sun, Apr 21 | Sun, Jun 9 |
Every date in the table hangs on Easter. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday, 46 days earlier; Palm Sunday is a week before; Pentecost comes seven weeks after. Mardi Gras, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, is a legal holiday in Louisiana parishes that celebrate it, but not anywhere at federal level.
How the date is calculated
The Council of Nicaea in 325 asked the churches to celebrate Easter on the same Sunday, after the spring full moon. Over the centuries this became a calculation, the computus, rather than an observation. The version used today fixes the spring equinox at March 21 and takes the full moon from a nineteen-year cycle, corrected for the Gregorian calendar. The program behind this site uses the standard algorithm published by Meeus, which reproduces the church tables for every year; the test suite checks it against known dates, among them the Good Friday holidays gazetted by Hong Kong for 2027, which fall on Fri, Mar 26.
Because the moon in the rule is a table value, it can disagree with the astronomical full moon. When the real full moon falls on a Saturday night and the table moon on Sunday, Easter moves a whole week later than a sky watcher would expect. That is why the astronomical seasons on the first day of spring page and Easter are worked out separately.
Good Friday: markets shut, everything else open
Good Friday is the clearest case of a closure that has nothing to do with the federal calendar. The NYSE holiday schedule lists it every year next to the federal holidays, and Nasdaq follows the same calendar. The Federal Reserve holiday list does not include it, so wires, direct deposits and checks are processed normally.
Stock market (NYSE, Nasdaq), Friday, March 26, 2027
Closed
Good Friday
| Post offices (retail counters)normal day | Open |
| Mail deliveryRegular delivery | Yes |
| Blue collection boxesNormal collection times | Collected |
| Banks (Federal Reserve calendar)business day | Open |
| Federal officesregular workday | Open |
A handful of states and many school districts give Good Friday or the Monday after Easter off. Those are local choices and change between districts, so the site does not list them.
Spring planning around Easter
School spring breaks are often built around Easter, which is why the date shapes airline and hotel demand in March and April. An early Easter like 2027 can put the holiday before many breaks; a late one like April 16 lines it up with April vacations. For family dates later in spring, the Mother's Day page has its own countdown.
For those counting days, the countdown shows the weekends and business days before Easter Sunday; Good Friday is not removed from that business-day count, because it is not a federal holiday.