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Orthodox Easter 2028

Monday 17 April 2028

The day off is the Monday after Orthodox Easter Sunday, Sunday 16 April 2028.

Orthodox Easter Sunday is computed on the Julian calendar, which runs 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar until 2100, so it falls between 4 April and 8 May. Easter Monday follows it the next day.

In 2028, Orthodox Easter Sunday falls on Sunday 16 April 2028. Easter Monday falls on Monday 17 April 2028 in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Romania. Every date is a Monday, so each gives a three-day weekend, or a four-day weekend in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, where the Friday before is a holiday too. The 2028 date for Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Romania is provisional – calculated from the rule, because the official calendar for that year is not published yet. For comparison in Bulgaria, the 2027 date was Monday 3 May 2027 and the 2029 date is Monday 9 April 2029.

Dates in 2028

Monday 17 April 2028

Called Easter Monday. provisional – calculated from the rule

Called Easter Monday. provisional – calculated from the rule

Called Easter Monday. provisional – calculated from the rule

Called Easter Monday. provisional – calculated from the rule

See also: Good Friday 2028, Easter Monday 2028.

About Orthodox Easter

Orthodox Easter is the date on which the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. They work it out on the Julian calendar, using the uncorrected 19-year cycle of the Moon, and then express the result in the civil Gregorian calendar. Because the Julian calendar runs 13 days behind the Gregorian one between 1900 and 2099, Orthodox Easter Sunday falls between 4 April and 8 May. It sometimes coincides with the Western date and sometimes comes one, four or five weeks later: in 2027 the Western date is 28 March and the Orthodox date is 2 May.

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Romania are the countries on this site that follow the Orthodox date for their public holidays. They do not use the Western Good Friday and Easter Monday, which is why those two pages leave them out. The table on this page shows the Monday after Orthodox Easter Sunday, called Easter Monday in English, which all four count as a public holiday. Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania also count the Orthodox Good Friday, and Bulgaria Holy Saturday as well; in Greece Good Friday is not a mandatory holiday for private employers, so this site lists it there without counting it. Easter Sunday itself is a Sunday and is already a day of rest, so it adds no day off.

Easter Monday is always a Monday, so it never needs a substitute day. In Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, where the Friday before it is also a holiday, the two give a four-day weekend; in Greece the Monday alone gives a three-day weekend. The Western pages for Good Friday and Easter Monday show the other dates of the season. Orthodox Pentecost is dated from the same Easter date: Cyprus and Romania count the Monday after it, Greece lists it as Holy Spirit Monday without counting it, and it is not included here.

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