Days Until Easter Calculator

Easter is a movable feast: in Western churches it is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the 21 March equinox, so it can fall anywhere from 22 March to 25 April. This calculator works out that Sunday for the year you choose using the standard Gregorian computus, then measures the exact time between right now and midnight at the start of the day. It updates every second, so the seconds tick down live and the day count drops by one at each midnight. Pick any year up to 2126; the times use your own device’s clock.

Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar, celebrating the resurrection. It is preceded by Lent — the roughly 40-day period that begins on Ash Wednesday — and by Holy Week, which runs from Palm Sunday through Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Many countries observe Good Friday and Easter Monday as public holidays. Because the date is tied to the lunar calendar, it moves each year and even differs between traditions: most Orthodox churches calculate Easter from the older Julian calendar, so their date usually falls later than the Western one and only sometimes coincides. This countdown uses the Western (Gregorian) date.

• Western (Gregorian) Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March; the date ranges from 22 March to 25 April.
• Dates are computed with the standard Gregorian computus (Meeus/Jones/Butcher algorithm).
• Good Friday is two days before Easter Sunday; Easter Monday is the day after.
• Orthodox Easter is calculated from the Julian calendar and usually differs from the Western date.
• The countdown runs on your device’s local time and updates every second; you can count down to any Easter up to 2126.