Easter: When It Falls Each Year and What to Give

Easter is the most famous movable date on the calendar and the one people look up the most every year, because there’s no way to remember it.

Why it changes

Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the March equinox. It’s a rule that combines the solar and lunar calendars, which is why it can fall anywhere between March 22 and April 25.

Upcoming dates

Year	Easter Sunday
2026	April 5
2027	March 28
2028	April 16
2029	April 1
2030	April 21

In Argentina, Good Friday is a national holiday and Holy Thursday is an optional non-working day, which makes it one of the most traveled long weekends of the year.

What people give

• Easter eggs and roscas (Easter ring cakes). The undisputed classic.
• Chocolate + flower combos. The format that has grown the most in recent years, especially for adults.
• Arrangements for the Sunday lunch table, the family meal of the holiday.
• Flowering plants, for the sense of rebirth the holiday carries.
• Breakfasts delivered to the door, very popular for Sunday morning.

Easter flowers

The Northern Hemisphere tradition uses the white lily — the “Easter lily” — as a symbol of resurrection, along with daffodils and tulips, which there are the flowers of the northern spring.

Here Easter falls in the fall, so the natural palette is different: chrysanthemums, dahlias, carnations, statice and foliage in warm tones. White lilies are available all year, so if you want to honor the symbol, you can.

A logistics detail

The Holy Week long weekend changes deliveries a lot: there are holidays, a huge number of people leave the city, and the traffic going out and coming back is a real problem. If you’re sending something, schedule it for Thursday or Sunday, and make sure the person will be at the address you entered. It’s the date of the year with the most failed deliveries because “nobody’s home.”