Ash Wednesday: Dates 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016

Ash Wednesday, the carnival is over and the Lent starts. The date always falls on Wednesday exactly 46 days before Easter Sunday. This results in a different date every year.

For everyone who does not want to count for himself, here are the dates of the next and previous years:

• Ash Wednesday 2026: February 18, 2026
• Ash Wednesday 2025: March 5, 2025
• Ash Wednesday 2024: February 14, 2024
• Ash Wednesday 2023: February 22, 2023
• Ash Wednesday 2022: March 2, 2022
• Ash Wednesday 2021: February 17, 2021
• Ash Wednesday 2020: February 26, 2020
• Ash Wednesday 2019: March 6, 2019
• Ash Wednesday 2018: February 14, 2018
• Ash Wednesday 2017: March 1, 2017
• Ash Wednesday 2016: February 10, 2016

Follow-Up Dates

• 2020s: February 10, 2027 - March 1, 2028 - February 14, 2029
• 2030s: March 6, 2030 - February 26, 2031 - February 11, 2032 - March 2, 2033 - February 22, 2034 - February 7, 2035 - February 27, 2036 - February 18, 2037 - March 10, 2038 - February 23, 2039

Rosenmontag (Rose Monday or Shrove Monday) is the Monday before Ash Wednesday. Womens Carnival Day (Altweiber or Weiberfastnacht) is the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. Here you will find the dates for Rosenmontag as well as the dates for Womens Carnival Day.

Just like Rose Monday and Womens Carnival Day, also Ash Wednesday is not a public nonbusiness day in Germany.