Western Easter
Sunday, March 25, 2046
Gregorian computus. Golden number 14, epact 22, Paschal full moon March 22.
Easter 2046
Easter 2046: Sunday, March 25
In 2046 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, March 25, 2046. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 29, 2046, five weeks later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 29, 2046
Julian computus: April 16 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 2046 the two Easters are 35 days apart: Orthodox Easter is five weeks after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 2045 (April 9). They next fall on the same day in 2048 (April 5).
Western · Mar 25
Orthodox · Apr 29
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2046
Western feasts, 2046
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 6, 2046 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 7, 2046 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 18, 2046 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, March 22, 2046 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, March 23, 2046 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, March 24, 2046 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, March 25, 2046 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, March 26, 2046 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 3, 2046 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 13, 2046 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2046
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 12, 2046 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 22, 2046 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 27, 2046 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 29, 2046 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 7, 2046 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 17, 2046 | +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 2046?
March 25 is date 4 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 3 days after the earliest possible date and 31 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 3 fall on an earlier date than this one and 195 fall on a later date. 2 other years in that span share the date: 1951, 2035. Before 2046, Western Easter last fell on March 25 in 2035; after 2046 it next does in 2103.
Orthodox Easter on April 29 is April 16 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2046. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 150 years and on a later one in 44 years; it falls on the same date in 1951, 1962, 1973, 2035, 2057, 2068.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2046
14Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2046 mod 19) + 1.
22Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 22Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Thursday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 25Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 12), a Wednesday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2046
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=13 b=20 c=46 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=1 i=11 k=2 l=2 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 117, and 117 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 24: month 3, day 24 + 1. March 25- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=2 c=13 d=22 e=3d + e + 114 = 139, and 139 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 15: Julian April 16. Plus 13 days: April 29
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.