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Easter 2037

Easter 2037: Sunday, April 5

In 2037 Easter falls on Sunday, April 5, 2037 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.

Western Easter

Sunday, April 5, 2037

Gregorian computus. Golden number 5, epact 13, Paschal full moon March 31.

Orthodox Easter

Sunday, April 5, 2037

Julian computus: March 23 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.

Both Easters fall on April 5 in 2037. They last fell on the same day in 2034 (April 9). They next fall on the same day in 2038 (April 25).

Western · Apr 5
Orthodox · Apr 5
MarchAprilMay
March 1 to May 31, 2037; each line is a Sunday. Upper band: the dates Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25. Lower band: the dates Orthodox Easter can take in 2037, April 4 to May 8 (Julian March 22 to April 25, plus 13 days). Western Easter: April 5. Orthodox Easter: April 5.

The moving feasts of 2037

Western feasts, 2037

FeastDateFrom Easter
Shrove TuesdayTuesday, February 17, 2037−47 days
Ash WednesdayWednesday, February 18, 2037−46 days
Palm SundaySunday, March 29, 2037−7 days
Maundy ThursdayThursday, April 2, 2037−3 days
Good FridayFriday, April 3, 2037−2 days
Holy SaturdaySaturday, April 4, 2037−1 day
Easter SundaySunday, April 5, 2037Easter Sunday
Easter MondayMonday, April 6, 2037+1 day
Ascension DayThursday, May 14, 2037+39 days
PentecostSunday, May 24, 2037+49 days

Orthodox feasts, 2037

FeastDateFrom Easter
Clean MondayMonday, February 16, 2037−48 days
Palm SundaySunday, March 29, 2037−7 days
Great and Holy FridayFriday, April 3, 2037−2 days
Pascha (Easter Sunday)Sunday, April 5, 2037Easter Sunday
AscensionThursday, May 14, 2037+39 days
PentecostSunday, May 24, 2037+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 2037?

April 5 is date 15 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 14 days after the earliest possible date and 20 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 71 fall on an earlier date than this one and 123 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1931, 1942, 1953, 2015, 2026, 2048. Before 2037, Western Easter last fell on April 5 in 2026; after 2037 it next does in 2048.

Orthodox Easter on April 5 is March 23 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2037. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 2 years and on a later one in 195 years; it falls on the same date in 1942, 1953, 2048.

The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.

The arithmetic for 2037

5Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2037 mod 19) + 1.
13Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 31Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Tuesday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 4Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 22), a Saturday.

The two algorithms, worked for 2037

Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=4 b=20 c=37 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=10 i=9 k=1 l=4 m=0
h + l − 7m + 114 = 128, and 128 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 4: month 4, day 4 + 1. April 5
Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=1 b=0 c=4 d=1 e=0
d + e + 114 = 115, and 115 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 22: Julian March 23. Plus 13 days: April 5

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.