Orthodox holidays 2026

Eastern Orthodoxy keeps the Julian computus, so Orthodox Easter usually falls on a different Sunday from the Western one — sometimes by over a month. The two coincide in some years.

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

How these dates move

Where each Orthodox 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.

Orthodox holidays in 2026

Holiday	Date	Day	Away
Orthodox Christmas	January 7	Wednesday	passed
Orthodox Good Friday	April 10	Friday	passed
Orthodox Easter	April 12	Sunday	passed
Orthodox Pentecost	May 31	Sunday	passed

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.