How Many Days Until Easter
Easter Sunday moves every year: it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox.
The countdown timer on this page shows how many days, hours and minutes remain until Easter Sunday — and because Easter moves every year, the target date is worked out for you.
- Date: Sunday, 28 March 2027
- Counted in your local time zone — the clock above uses the time on your device.
- Next time after that: 16 April 2028
When the counter reaches zero the page says «Happy Easter!» and, the next day, starts counting to 16 April 2028.
Other countdowns
How to use Easter countdown
Open the page; the count is live at once, aimed at the next Easter Sunday. Read it in days for planning, or watch the minutes and seconds if the eggs are already boiled. After the holiday, the page moves on to the following year's date by itself.
Why the countdown timer aims at a moving date
Western Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. That rule ties the holiday to the sky, not the calendar, and lets it land anywhere from March 22 to April 25. Two consecutive Easters can be a month apart.
Orthodox Easter follows the older Julian reckoning and usually comes later; in some years the two dates coincide. Either way, remembering the rule is harder than opening a page that has already applied it.
Counting the wait without doing astronomy
This is the one holiday where a live count genuinely spares you work: for a fixed date you could count on a calendar, but here you would first have to find the date. The page does both steps and shows only the part you care about — the shrinking number.
Full screen on a spare tablet it doubles as a household display, and the sibling pages carry the rest of the year: Halloween in autumn, then Christmas, then round again. Easter is the only holiday that makes you do astronomy just to find out when to buy the eggs.
Questions and answers
- What are the earliest and latest possible dates?
- For Western Easter, March 22 at the earliest and April 25 at the latest. Every year's date falls somewhere in that window.
- My Easter is on a different date — why?
- You likely follow the Orthodox calendar, which usually places Easter later than the Western one. Some years they agree; most years they do not.
- Can I count down to something else?
- Yes — the Countdowns page collects Christmas, New Year, Halloween and the seasons, each with its own live count.