When is Easter 2027? Sunday, March 28 — a movable Christian feast tied to the spring full moon, not a fixed civil holiday.
Current target date: Sunday, March 28, 2027 (Easter Sunday). Calendar anchors follow public observance — your school district or country may use a different day.
Easter Sunday 2027 is March 28. The date moves every year because it follows ecclesiastical full-moon rules, not a fixed civil holiday — Good Friday and school spring breaks orbit the same weekend. Orthodox Easter can fall on a different Sunday; this timer follows the Western date used in the US and most of Europe.
Easter Sunday
Sunday, March 28, 2027
Easter is a calculated Sunday — not a date someone “picks” each spring
March 28, 2027 comes from the Western computus: find the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21, then take the next Sunday. That machinery is older than modern nation-state holiday lists and is why Easter can sit in late March one year and mid-April another.
Good Friday (March 26, 2027) and many school spring breaks are planned around that same weekend — they orbit Easter; they don’t set it.
"When is Easter?" can honestly have two answers the same year
Western and many Orthodox calendars parted ways when the Julian/Gregorian split and different Paschal rules stuck. In some years both traditions celebrate on the same Sunday; in others they are weeks apart. If your parish follows Orthodox Pascha, do not treat this page’s March 28 as automatic — check that jurisdiction’s published date.
What the civil calendar does (and doesn’t) do for Easter weekend 2027
- US federal offices: open as usual on Easter Sunday — it isn’t a federal holiday.
- Retail / restaurants: often peak brunch and family dining; hours vary by chain.
- Europe / parts of Canada: Good Friday and/or Easter Monday may be statutory days off — different from the US pattern.
- Travel: the Sunday itself is busy for family trips; the Friday before can be the heavier flight day when Good Friday is observed.
The "full moon" that sets Easter isn’t always the one you see in the sky that night
Computus uses an ecclesiastical approximation of the lunar cycle so churches worldwide can agree on a Sunday without waiting on local skywatchers. Astronomers’ true full-moon instant can differ from that table — which is why a planetarium app and a church calendar can disagree even when both are "correct" inside their own rules. March 28, 2027 is the computus result, not a claim about what the Moon looked like from your backyard.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this release date.
1Why does Easter move every year?
Western churches use computus rules: Easter is the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that falls on or after March 21. That is calendar arithmetic tied to an ecclesiastical moon, not simply “the astronomical spring equinox + full moon” in every detail — which is why online astronomy widgets sometimes disagree by a day.
2Is Orthodox Easter the same Sunday as this page?
Not always. Many Orthodox churches still compute Pascha with the Julian calendar, so their Easter can land weeks apart from the Western date. March 28, 2027 on this page is the Western (Gregorian / Catholic–Protestant) Sunday used in the US and most of Western Europe.
3Is Easter Sunday a US federal holiday?
No. Good Friday is a holiday in some states and for some employers, and Easter Monday is a public holiday in parts of Europe and Canada, but Easter Sunday itself is not on the US federal holiday list — banks follow weekday rules, not the feast.
4How is Easter related to Passover?
Historically the Passion narrative is set around Passover season, and the two calendars often land near each other — but they are calculated differently (lunisolar Jewish calendar vs Christian computus). Proximity in a given year is coincidence of systems, not a shared formula.
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