How Many Days Until Easter Sunday 2026?

Easter Sunday 2026 is Sunday, 5 April 2026

Easter Sunday 2026 fell on Sunday, 5 April 2026, which was 136 days before 19 August 2026. That is 19 weeks and 3 days, or 94 working days once Saturdays, Sundays and the US federal holidays in between are taken out — the figure that matters if you are counting delivery lead time or a work schedule rather than sleeps. The date is 2026-04-05 in ISO form and 4/5/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 14 of 2026, and it is day 95 of 365.

How the date of Easter Sunday is decided

Easter is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March, calculated by the anniversary computus. This puts it between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Orthodox Easter uses the Julian calendar for the same rule and usually falls on a different date.

That makes it a computed date: there is no fixed day and no simple weekday rule, so it has to be worked out from a formula or a calendar of its own each year. In 2026 it works out as Sunday 5 April.

Easter Sunday is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.

Easter Sunday in the years after 2026

Both the date and the weekday move, because the rule is not tied to either.

Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including how we count the 94 working days above.