Western Easter
Sunday, April 9, 1944
Gregorian computus. Golden number 7, epact 5, Paschal full moon April 8.
Easter 1944
Easter 1944: Sunday, April 9
In 1944 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 9, 1944. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 16, 1944, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 16, 1944
Julian computus: April 3 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1944 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1943 (April 25). They next fall on the same day in 1946 (April 21).
Western · Apr 9
Orthodox · Apr 16
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1944
Western feasts, 1944
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 22, 1944 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 23, 1944 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 2, 1944 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 6, 1944 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 7, 1944 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 8, 1944 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 9, 1944 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 10, 1944 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 18, 1944 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 28, 1944 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1944
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 28, 1944 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 9, 1944 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 14, 1944 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 16, 1944 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 25, 1944 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 4, 1944 | +49 days |
Each date is Easter Sunday plus or minus a fixed number of days; the offsets and their sources are on the about page. Observance varies by church and by country. Whether a feast is a day off work is a matter of each country’s law.
How early is Easter in 1944?
April 9 is date 19 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 18 days after the earliest possible date and 16 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 96 fall on an earlier date than this one and 99 fall on a later date. 5 other years in that span share the date: 1939, 1950, 2023, 2034, 2045. Before 1944, Western Easter last fell on April 9 in 1939; after 1944 it next does in 1950.
Orthodox Easter on April 16 is April 3 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1944. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 65 years and on a later one in 130 years; it falls on the same date in 1922, 1933, 2017, 2023, 2028.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1944
7Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1944 mod 19) + 1.
5Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 8Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Saturday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 12Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 30), a Wednesday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1944
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=6 b=19 c=44 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=18 i=11 k=0 l=0 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 132, and 132 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 8: month 4, day 8 + 1. April 9- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=5 c=6 d=9 e=3d + e + 114 = 126, and 126 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 2: Julian April 3. Plus 13 days: April 16
How the date of Easter is calculated explains each letter. The dates on this page agree with the US Census Bureau table (Western), the 5ko.free.fr tables (Western and Orthodox), each read September 28, 2026.