How Many Days Until Palm Sunday?
Time Remaining Until Palm Sunday
What is the Palm Sunday date in numbers?
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For bulletins, travel, and event systems, YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) keeps Palm Sunday dates clear worldwide.
“How many days until Palm Sunday?” — quick FAQ
Which Palm Sunday does this page track?
This page tracks the next Palm Sunday in the Western Christian calendar, defined as the Sunday before Easter. If today is before that date, the countdown targets this year; once your local time passes midnight at the start of Palm Sunday, it automatically moves on to the following year.
Is Palm Sunday on the same date every year?
No. Palm Sunday is a movable feast because it depends on Easter’s date. It always falls exactly one week before Easter Sunday, so it can occur from mid-March to late April depending on the year.
How does this relate to Holy Week and Easter?
Palm Sunday marks the start of Holy Week. This tool keeps Palm Sunday aligned with the same Western Easter calculation used by our Easter and Good Friday countdown pages.
Why does the headline show days instead of hours?
The main figure uses calendar days, counting midnight-to-midnight boundaries and including today for a calm, easy-to-scan answer. A separate live breakdown below handles precise hours, minutes, and seconds.
Does the countdown match my time zone?
Yes. All calculations run locally in your browser using your device’s time zone, so the timer reflects your location without sending personal data to our servers.
How can I copy and share the date quickly?
Use the buttons under the result: one copies the full written date for announcements and posts, the other copies the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD) for schedules, spreadsheets, and planning tools.
How this page calculates the Palm Sunday countdown
This page is built to give you a precise, low-effort answer to a moving-date question: how many days are left until the next Palm Sunday? Because Palm Sunday is defined relative to Easter rather than a fixed calendar date, the countdown is generated programmatically in your browser so it stays accurate year after year without manual edits.
When you load the page, a small script reads your current local date and time. It first computes Western Easter Sunday for the relevant year using a standard, well-established algorithm. Once Easter is known, Palm Sunday is set as exactly seven days before Easter — the Sunday that opens Holy Week. That target is anchored to your local midnight at the start of Palm Sunday for clear, time-zone-aware results.
If your current date and time fall before that Palm Sunday, the countdown locks onto this year’s observance. If you’ve already reached or passed Palm Sunday where you are, the script automatically repeats the Easter calculation for the following year and sets the new Palm Sunday date. That way, the page always answers “how long until the next Palm Sunday?” instead of leaving you staring at a past date.
The bold number in the grey box uses a calendar-day method. It counts how many midnight boundaries lie between “today” and Palm Sunday, with today included in the total. This matches how people use wall calendars and keeps the headline stable throughout the day instead of fluctuating with every passing hour.
Beneath the headline, a live breakdown converts the remaining time into hours, minutes, and seconds until Palm Sunday begins in your local time zone. That dual view makes the tool equally useful for quick checks, detailed church scheduling, choir and volunteer planning, and even coordinating travel for Holy Week.
For reliable communication, the page also prints the Palm Sunday date in multiple numeric formats and surfaces its day-of-year index plus ISO week number. Highlighting the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD) helps avoid mixups between regional date styles when sharing with teams, parishes, or software systems. All logic runs locally in your browser—no external APIs and no exported time-zone data—and the inline calendar opens directly to the target month with Palm Sunday highlighted so you can see it in context at a glance.