Ash Wednesday 2020

When is Ash Wednesday 2020?

What is Ash Wednesday?

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10.

Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of adherents as a sign of mourning and repentance to God. The ashes used are typically gathered after the palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday are burned.

Further reading:
• For very detailed information about Ash Wednesday see Wikipedia.

When is Ash Wednesday 2021?

Dates for Ash Wednesday from 2015 to 2025

The next occurrence of Ash Wednesday is marked in red.

When is ...?	Date	Day of the week	Days away
Ash Wednesday 2015	February 18, 2015	Wednesday	1526 days ago
Ash Wednesday 2016	February 10, 2016	Wednesday	1169 days ago
Ash Wednesday 2017	March 1, 2017	Wednesday	784 days ago
Ash Wednesday 2018	February 14, 2018	Wednesday	434 days ago
Ash Wednesday 2019	March 6, 2019	Wednesday	49 days ago
Ash Wednesday 2020	February 26, 2020	Wednesday	in 307 days
Ash Wednesday 2021	February 17, 2021	Wednesday	in 664 days
Ash Wednesday 2022	March 2, 2022	Wednesday	in 1042 days
Ash Wednesday 2023	February 22, 2023	Wednesday	in 1399 days
Ash Wednesday 2024	February 14, 2024	Wednesday	in 1756 days
Ash Wednesday 2025	March 5, 2025	Wednesday	in 2141 days
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Dates of Ash Wednesday 2020 and surrounding years as downloadable image file

Calendar templates 2020 for Word, Excel & PDF

2020 calendar as templates for Word, Excel & PDF A selection of calendar templates for 2020 in landscape and portrait orientation and with US federal holidays, suitable for a variety of applications. 2020 calendar templates for Word 2020 calendar templates for Excel 2020 calendar templates for PDF

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