Christian holidays 2026

Dates for Western Christianity. Everything from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost is fixed relative to Easter, which is computed by the Gregorian computus: the Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after 21 March.

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12 dates across 2026. Hover a mark for the holiday and its date.

How these dates move

Where each Christian holiday falls in the Gregorian year, 2026 to 2043. A flat line means a fixed Gregorian date; a sloping one means the calendar drifts. The dashed line marks 2026. Lines that run off the bottom reappear at the top the following year.

Christian holidays in 2026

Holiday	Date	Day	Away
Epiphany	January 6	Tuesday	passed
Ash Wednesday	February 18	Wednesday	passed
Palm Sunday	March 29	Sunday	passed
Maundy Thursday	April 2	Thursday	passed
Good Friday	April 3	Friday	passed
Easter Sunday	April 5	Sunday	passed
Easter Monday	April 6	Monday	passed
Ascension Day	May 14	Thursday	passed
Pentecost	May 24	Sunday	passed
All Saints' Day	November 1	Sunday	passed
Advent Sunday	November 29	Sunday	22 days
Christmas Day	December 25	Friday	48 days

Other traditions

Hindu festivals are not listed anywhere on this site. Diwali and Holi are lunisolar and vary by region and by panchang, and there is no dependable way to compute them here — publishing a guess to a religious audience is worse than publishing nothing.