Easter Monday Bank Holiday 2017
What is Easter Monday and when does it fall?What is Easter Monday, where in the UK is it a bank holiday and when does it fall? Date, day of the week, substitute day and background.
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When is Easter Monday 2017?
Easter Monday 2017 is on Monday, 17 April 2017. Falling on a Monday, it makes a three-day weekend without using any annual leave.
Easter Monday 2017 at a glance
| Date | Monday, 17 April 2017 |
| Date rule | moveable, always the day after Easter Sunday |
| Where it applies | England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not Scotland |
| Also known as | Bright Monday |
Easter Monday: origins, the Easter weekend and Scotland
The second day of Easter
Easter Monday has no separate event behind it. It survives from the medieval practice of keeping the great church feasts over several days, originally a whole octave of eight. In Britain the Monday is what remained when the rest fell away.
Easter Monday has no separate event behind it. It survives from the medieval practice of keeping the great church feasts over several days, originally a whole octave of eight. In Britain the Monday is what remained when the rest fell away.
One of the original four
Easter Monday was one of the four days named for England, Wales and Ireland in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, alongside Whit Monday, the first Monday in August and Boxing Day. It has been a fixture of the calendar ever since.
Easter Monday was one of the four days named for England, Wales and Ireland in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, alongside Whit Monday, the first Monday in August and Boxing Day. It has been a fixture of the calendar ever since.
Not a holiday in Scotland
Scotland kept Good Friday but never adopted Easter Monday as a bank holiday, one of several points where the Scottish list diverges. Scots instead have 2nd January, the first Monday in August and St Andrew's Day.
Scotland kept Good Friday but never adopted Easter Monday as a bank holiday, one of several points where the Scottish list diverges. Scots instead have 2nd January, the first Monday in August and St Andrew's Day.
The longest weekend of the year
With Good Friday on one side and Easter Monday on the other, Easter gives four consecutive days off without touching any annual leave, the longest such run in the UK calendar. Three days of leave either side turn it into ten.
With Good Friday on one side and Easter Monday on the other, Easter gives four consecutive days off without touching any annual leave, the longest such run in the UK calendar. Three days of leave either side turn it into ten.
A moveable date
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so Easter Monday can fall anywhere between 23 March and 26 April. As a Monday it never needs a substitute day.
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March, so Easter Monday can fall anywhere between 23 March and 26 April. As a Monday it never needs a substitute day.
All bank holidays of the year
Which other bank holidays fall in 2017, what day of the week they land on and which parts of the UK they apply to.Calendar around Easter Monday 2017
The calendar month around Easter Monday 2017 and the months before and after.
See also: Yearly calendar for 2017
| March 2017 | |||||||
| Wk | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 11 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 12 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 13 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
Dates of Easter Monday Bank Holiday: long term overview
Because it follows Easter, the date can fall anywhere between 23 March and 26 April. As a Monday it never needs a substitute day.
| Year | Date | Day of the week | Substitute day |
| 2015 | 6 April 2015 | Monday | – |
| 2016 | 28 March 2016 | Monday | – |
| 2017 | 17 April 2017 | Monday | – |
| 2018 | 2 April 2018 | Monday | – |
| 2019 | 22 April 2019 | Monday | – |
| 2020 | 13 April 2020 | Monday | – |
| 2021 | 5 April 2021 | Monday | – |
| 2022 | 18 April 2022 | Monday | – |
| 2023 | 10 April 2023 | Monday | – |
| 2024 | 1 April 2024 | Monday | – |
| 2025 | 21 April 2025 | Monday | – |
| 2026 | 6 April 2026 | Monday | – |
| 2027 | 29 March 2027 | Monday | – |
| 2028 | 17 April 2028 | Monday | – |
| 2029 | 2 April 2029 | Monday | – |
| 2030 | 22 April 2030 | Monday | – |
| 2031 | 14 April 2031 | Monday | – |
| 2032 | 29 March 2032 | Monday | – |
| 2033 | 18 April 2033 | Monday | – |
| 2034 | 10 April 2034 | Monday | – |
| 2035 | 26 March 2035 | Monday | – |
| 2036 | 14 April 2036 | Monday | – |
| 2037 | 6 April 2037 | Monday | – |