Western & secular
✝️ 280 days until Good Friday
Good Friday falls on Friday, March 26, 2027 in your local time.
Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and falls on the Friday immediately before Easter Sunday. Because it is tied to Easter, it is a movable date, shifting between late March and mid-April each year. It is a public holiday in many countries and is observed with solemn church services, fasting, and reflection. As part of the Easter triduum it sits two days before Easter and three before the end of Holy Week. This countdown derives the date from the Western Easter computus, the same rule that governs Easter itself.
Date rule: The Friday before Easter Sunday (Easter minus two days).
The next Good Friday is Friday, March 26, 2027 — in 281 days. The countdown at the top of this page updates every second in your own time zone, so the number stays accurate wherever you are reading from. Because Good Friday is treated as an all-day calendar date rather than a fixed clock time, the countdown rolls over at midnight in your local zone, not at midnight UTC. If you are coordinating across regions, set reminders against this date and let each person's device localise it.
This year the holiday lands on a Friday, which means it falls on a working day, so any public-holiday closures apply on the day itself in countries that observe it. Across the next five occurrences listed below, Good Friday touches the same weekday each time and lands on a weekend none of of those 5 years — useful when you are planning travel, time off, or a recurring event around it.
Good Friday belongs to the western & secular calendar tradition. The Friday before Easter Sunday (Easter minus two days). Movable dates like this are resolved from the underlying calendar rule rather than a fixed Gregorian day, which is why the date moves around the calendar each year. Timekit computes every occurrence in the table below from that same rule, so the dates stay consistent with the rest of the site's calendar tools and update automatically as the years roll forward.
If you want the dates in your own calendar app, use the live countdown above, then jump to the western & secular countdowns or the full holiday list to line up the surrounding observances. For a date-by-date planning view, the five-year table gives you the exact weekday for each upcoming year at a glance.
| Year | Date |
|---|---|
| 2027 | Friday, March 26, 2027 |
| 2028 | Friday, April 14, 2028 |
| 2029 | Friday, March 30, 2029 |
| 2030 | Friday, April 19, 2030 |
| 2031 | Friday, April 11, 2031 |
The next Good Friday is Friday, March 26, 2027 — in 281 days.
Good Friday 2028 falls on Friday, April 14, 2028.
No. The Friday before Easter Sunday (Easter minus two days). The Gregorian date shifts each year, so check the table above for the exact date you need.
No — the next Good Friday is a Friday, a weekday.