Judaism · 2029
In 2029, Passover starts falls on a Thursday, running through Wednesday, April 4, 2029.
Passover starts 2029 falls on Thursday, March 29, 2029. That is a Thursday, a regular working weekday in most countries. It is the 88th day of 2029 and sits in ISO week 13. If you are planning around it, the day of the week matters as much as the date itself, because it decides whether the observance creates a long weekend, a midweek pause, or a day that has to be moved under local substitute-holiday rules.
With Passover starts on a Thursday, one day of leave on the Friday creates a four-day weekend, a popular bridge-day move.
Compared with 2028, when it fell on April 8, Passover starts 2029 moves about 11 days earlier in the Gregorian calendar. This drift is normal for a holiday tied to a lunar or lunisolar calendar rather than a fixed civil date.
How the date moves in the years either side of 2029. Each year links to its own page with a countdown and the full day-of-week detail.
Passover, or Pesach, is a major Jewish festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt and the liberation of the Israelites from slavery. It begins on the fifteenth day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar and is observed for seven or eight days depending on community practice. The first night is centered on the seder, a ritual meal with readings, symbolic foods, questions, and storytelling. During the festival, many Jewish households avoid chametz, leavened grain products. Because the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, Passover's Gregorian start date moves within March or April. timekit uses the date in its 2026-2035 religious holidays data; religious observance begins at sundown the previous evening.
Calendar note: Computed with the local Hebrew calendar engine; shown as a 7-day span.