Back to the calendar
Easter
Easter Sunday / Resurrection of Our Lord
Also called: Pascha (Greek/Orthodox), Pesach/Pâques, Ostern (German), Påsk (Swedish), Паска (Ukrainian), Fasika (Ethiopian), Zatik (Armenian)
5 April 2026
All Christians
Every year, millions of Christians in Greece light candles at midnight and shout 'Christ is Risen!' before the fireworks start. Easter Sunday celebrates Jesus rising from the dead — the central event of the Christian faith.
Western and Orthodox dates often differ by a week or more because they use different calendars to calculate the date. Churches fill with flowers, chocolate eggs appear, and families feast together.
If you want to experience Easter where it actually happened, Eden lists pilgrimages to Jerusalem every spring.
At a glance
- Type
- solemnity
- Date type
- Moveable (changes with Easter)
- Regions
- Global
- Themes
- Resurrection
- Liturgical colour
- White, Gold
Common questions
Easter Sunday is observed on 5 April 2026. Moveable feasts shift each year; fixed feasts stay on the same calendar date.
The central and most important feast of the entire Christian calendar, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. All other seasons and feasts of the church calendar year radiate from Easter. In Eastern Orthodoxy, Pascha (Orthodox Easter) is described as the "Feast of Feasts" and "Resurrection of Resurrections." The night before (Easter Vigil / Paschal Vigil) is wh
It is associated with All Christians. It falls in the Easter season of the liturgical year.