Bank holiday weekend: Why is Easter 2025 so late in the year?

Easter Sunday is just five days shy of the latest it could possibly be. So, why the delay? It all comes down to the moon.

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00:00As we celebrate Easter this year, you might have noticed something different.

00:05It's falling much later than usual.

00:08Easter Sunday on the 20th of April is one of the latest dates we'll see in recent

00:11memory, just five days shy of the latest it could possibly be.

00:15So why the delay?

00:16It all comes down to the moon.

00:19Easter is determined by the first Sunday after the first full moon, following the spring

00:23equinox.

00:24In 2025, the pink moon, or Paschal moon, didn't rise until the 13th of April, which shifts

00:29Easter to the following Sunday, the 20th of the month.

00:33This late timing also coincided with the March blood moon lunar eclipse, which influenced

00:37the moon's cycle.

00:38And this year, Easter, for both Orthodox and Western Christians, will fall on the same date

00:43for the first time since 2017.

00:46It's meant some Scottish parents are upset over school holiday schedules, with some kids

00:50missing out on time off on Easter Monday.

00:54So while Easter's timing is out of our hands, it's certainly got everyone talking.

00:59hot no food running, but until the end of March will be at the end of March has a

01:07warm, but our nation is not going to be a with us.

01:09So we can do it.

01:09It's essentially what these days are the things that we received.

01:10And if we have the changes, we can do all this places because of the day in the

01:15terms.

01:16And I'm going to show up here because of the new day in the world we're going to be

01:17a place to be a person.

01:18And if we have the men who have the same day in the world we are going to be a woman, this

01:21is just going to be a number one night and we see them into it.

01:23So I'm going to just wait a minute.

01:23So if you have a minute and a minute...

01:25We're going to come back here...

01:26And so...