Answers to Easter Day questions

Q1. 27th March 2005.

Q2. 2018

Q3. 23rd March (in 2008)

Q4. 23rd April (in 2003)

Q5. 30 days

Q6. 23rd March (in 2008)

Q7. 25th April (in 2038)

Q8. 33 days.

Additional information on Easter Day

Easter Day is worked out with reference to movement of a theoretical moon. This theoretical moon is supposed to keep more or less in step with the real moon.

Easter day falls on the first Sunday that follows the paschal full moon. In this context, the paschal moon is the first full moon (of the theoretical moon) that occurs on or after the vernal equinox which is taken notionally to fall on 21st March.

The earliest day of the year that Easter can occur is 22nd March. The last year this happened was in 1818, and the next year it will happen is 2285.

The latest day of the year that Easter can occur is 25th April. The last year this happened was in 1943, and the next year it will happen is 2038.

Supplied by Candy Williams
with the kind permission of
Martyn Langford, South Downs College