easter_date(): the Unix timestamp for midnight on Easter Sunday for a specified year

Get the Easter Sunday timestamp

easter_date() returns a Unix timestamp for Easter Sunday for a supported year.

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$timestamp = easter_date(2027);
echo date('Y-m-d', $timestamp);

Current example first; the detailed examples and demos below are retained for additional learning and comparison.

\=easter_date(2025);
echo "Easter date is :".date('m-d-Y',\);

The output is here

Easter date is :04-20-2025

If year is not given the easter date of current year is returned.

\1745132400=easter_date();
echo "Easter date is :".date('m-d-Y',\1745132400)

Output is here

Easter date is :04-05-2026

We can get unix timestamp of Easter day corresponding to midnight on Easter of the given year by using easter_date() function.
Here is the syntax

easter_date(YYYY);

Here we are entering year in YYYY format , like 1998. The output is unix time stamp of midnight of easter day of the year.

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