# Spring 2027

- Date: March 20, 2027, 12:00 AM (UTC) — 2027-03-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Category: Holidays
- Page: https://www.watchisup.com/holidays/spring

Live countdown to spring 2027, computed from the real equinox rather than a fixed date. Personalise it and share it on WhatsApp.

Spring 2027 begins at the **March equinox**, not on the 1st of the month. The date moves: depending on the year, the equinox falls on 19, 20 or 21 March. The countdown above targets the exact astronomical instant, not an approximation.

**Why the date shifts.** One full orbit of the Earth around the Sun takes about 365 days and 6 hours. Each year the equinox therefore slides almost six hours later, and the leap day pulls it back a whole day. That tug-of-war is what spreads the date across three calendar days.

**Are day and night really equal?** Almost, but not quite. The word equinox promises a perfect split, yet the atmosphere bends sunlight and sunrise is timed from the first edge of the Sun's disc: daylight wins by several minutes. True equality, the *equilux*, happens a few days earlier at mid-latitudes.

**Two springs coexist.** Meteorologists start theirs on **1 March**, so they can work with whole three-month blocks. This countdown tracks the astronomical one.

In the southern hemisphere the same instant opens autumn: in Buenos Aires or Sydney, the March equinox announces the cold season.

This countdown can run full screen up to the equinox, or switch to **photo & camera mode** to lay the timer over your first picture of spring. For a date of your own — a sowing, a move, a deadline — create your own timer.