When is Easter 2025 and when are the school holidays?
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Easter is one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar, and it’s also a major secular holiday, too. For Christians, Easter is the day of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It also marks a four-day bank holiday weekend, giving the opportunity to get away, plan a fun family day out, and eat your body weight in chocolate eggs.
As the week of egg painting, picnics, and gatherings approaches, here is a look at everything you need to know about Easter 2025. Easter Sunday falls on April 20 this year, later than in 2024, when it was on March 31. Good Friday is on Friday, April 18 and will be marked, as usual, with a national bank holiday in the UK.
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Easter Monday will follow on Monday, April 21, which will complete a four-day weekend for those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, Easter isn’t a nationwide bank holiday, although various councils do claim it as one. For most schools in England, the Easter holidays in 2025 will be from Monday, April 7 to Monday, April 21. However, dates may differ slightly, depending on the area.
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Each year, Easter is moveable — unlike Christmas, for example. Easter’s date depends on the lunar cycle, as well as the timing of the Jewish festival of Passover, which is rooted in the Biblical account of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection. The Last Supper, which took place the night before Jesus was crucified, was on Passover.
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