Christianity · 2026
Easter 2026 is on Sunday, April 5, 2026
In 2026, Easter falls on a Sunday.
The exact date of Easter 2026
Easter 2026 falls on Sunday, April 5, 2026. That is a Sunday, which means it lands on a weekend. It is the 95th day of 2026 and sits in ISO week 14. If you are planning around it, the day of the week matters as much as the date itself, because it decides whether the observance creates a long weekend, a midweek pause, or a day that has to be moved under local substitute-holiday rules.
Falling on a Sunday, Easter overlaps a normal weekend. Where it is a public holiday, the observed day off is often moved to the following Monday under substitute-day rules.
Easter around 2026
How the date moves in the years either side of 2026. Each year links to its own page with a countdown and the full day-of-week detail.
About Easter
Easter is the central Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. In Western churches it is a movable feast, falling on the Sunday after the Paschal full moon on or after 21 March, which places it between 22 March and 25 April. Easter also anchors related observances such as Lent, Holy Week, Good Friday, and Pentecost. Customs vary widely by denomination and culture, from church services and vigils to family meals, decorated eggs, and spring gatherings. This page does not recompute Easter; it reads the date from timekit's published 2026-2035 religious holidays table, where Easter is produced by the site's Gregorian computus implementation.
Calendar note: Computed with the Gregorian computus algorithm.
Easter 2026, common questions
- When is Easter 2026?
- Easter 2026 falls on Sunday, April 5, 2026.
- What day of the week is Easter 2026?
- In 2026, Easter falls on a Sunday, which is a weekend day.
- When is Easter the year after 2026?
- In 2027, Easter falls on Sunday, March 28.
- Why does the date of Easter change each year?
- Customs vary widely by denomination and culture, from church services and vigils to family meals, decorated eggs, and spring gatherings. This page does not recompute Easter; it reads the date from timekit's published 2026-2035 religious holidays table, where Easter is produced by the site's Gregorian computus implementation.