Religious holiday
How Many Days Until Easter 2027?
Today: · Eastern Time (America/New_York)
Calendar days until Easter
155 days until Easter
Easter Sunday is on Sunday, March 28, 2027.
Live countdown to midnight on March 28, 2027
154 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes, 43 seconds remaining
Eastern Time (America/New_York). Countdown days are 24 hours; the calendar-day count above uses local dates.
- Calendar days (signed)
- 155
- Full weeks + days
- 22 weeks + 1 day
- Calendar months + days
- 5 months + 4 days
- Years, months, days
- 0 years, 5 months, 4 days
- Weekdays counted
- 110
- Weekend days counted
- 45
- U.S. business days
- 104
- Observed holiday dates skipped
- 6
What is Easter?
Easter Sunday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, the central event of the Christian faith. This date is Western Easter, observed by Catholic and Protestant churches; Orthodox churches often celebrate later.
History of Easter
Early Christians disagreed over when to celebrate Easter, and the Council of Nicaea in 325 began the move to a common method tied to the spring equinox and the full moon. The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582 produced the Western date used today.
Easter today
Christians attend church services, including sunrise services, and families share a meal. Easter egg hunts, baskets and the Easter Bunny, a custom brought by German immigrants, are popular traditions; the White House Easter Egg Roll has been held since 1878.
Date details
- Category
- Religious holiday
- How the date is set
- Set by a yearly rule
- Country / region
- General calendar event
- Actual event date
Western Christian date used by Catholic and Protestant churches; Orthodox Easter often falls later.
Western (Gregorian) Easter: the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21. Source: U.S. Naval Observatory
Event date facts
- Weekday
- Sunday
- ISO week / year
- 12 / 2027
- Day of year
- 87
- Quarter
- 1
- Days left in year
- 278
- Leap year
- No
March 2027
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | ||||||
Event dates by year
| Rule year | Actual date | Observed federal closure | Certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sunday, April 20, 2025 | — | Set by a yearly rule |
| 2026 | Sunday, April 5, 2026 | — | Set by a yearly rule |
| 2027 | Sunday, March 28, 2027 | — | Set by a yearly rule |
| 2028 | Sunday, April 16, 2028 | — | Set by a yearly rule |
| 2029 | Sunday, April 1, 2029 | — | Set by a yearly rule |
Quick answers
- What day of the week is March 28, 2027?
- March 28, 2027 is a Sunday.
- Is Easter a federal holiday?
- No. Easter Sunday is not a U.S. federal holiday, so federal offices and most businesses stay open.
- What week of the year is March 28, 2027?
- March 28, 2027 is in ISO week 12 of 2027 and is day 87 of the year.
How the Easter date is calculated
- Western Easter is the first Sunday after the church's full moon on or after March 21. The full moon comes from fixed church tables (the Gregorian computus), not from watching the sky, so Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
- For 2027 the tables give Sunday, March 28, 2027. Orthodox churches use the Julian calendar for the same rule, so their Easter is often later.
- The countdown counts calendar days from today to March 28, 2027. The start date is excluded and the end date is included. Dates use Eastern Time (America/New_York).
- The live countdown runs to midnight at the start of March 28, 2027 in Eastern Time (America/New_York). A countdown day is 24 hours, so a daylight-saving change can make it differ from the calendar-day count by an hour.
- Calculated at 6:21 AM on October 24, 2026.
- U.S. business days exclude Saturday, Sunday and observed nationwide federal closures; individual employer and state schedules are not included.