A live countdown to Easter — it falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon (between March 22 and April 25). See the days remaining plus a running hours, minutes and seconds timer, free and entirely in your browser.
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Easter falls on Easter Sunday, a moveable feast: Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so it lands between 22 March and 25 April.
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How many days until Easter?
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon (between March 22 and April 25), so the countdown above rolls over to next year automatically the moment this year's Easter passes — it will never show a negative number.
The big number is the count of whole days from today until Easter. The live timer beneath it ticks down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds in your local time zone, so it stays accurate wherever you are.
How the date is worked out
Easter is the most movable of the major holidays: the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the March equinox, which can be anywhere from March 22 to April 25. The countdown uses the standard Gregorian computus to find it.
Easter falls on Easter Sunday, a moveable feast: Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so it lands between 22 March and 25 April. The counter at the top of the page shows the exact number of days until the next Easter, updated live. Below it, a timer counts down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds.
What day of the week is Easter this year?
Easter falls on Easter Sunday, a moveable feast: Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so it lands between 22 March and 25 April. The weekday therefore changes from year to year. The date line under the headline shows the full weekday and date of the upcoming Easter, calculated automatically from your device clock.
Does the countdown reset after Easter?
The Easter countdown resets automatically. As soon as Easter has passed, the timer switches to next year's date, so the figure on screen is always the time until the next Easter. It never counts up and never shows a negative number, and the year label beside the headline updates to the new target year.
Why does the date of Easter change every year?
Easter is a moveable feast tied to the lunar cycle rather than to a fixed calendar date. The rule settled at the Council of Nicaea in 325 places it on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so Western Easter falls between 22 March and 25 April. The calculation, known as the computus, uses an ecclesiastical approximation of the full moon rather than the astronomical one. Orthodox churches apply the same rule to the Julian calendar, which is why Orthodox Easter usually lands on a different Sunday.