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Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker - FAQs

Last updated: April 20, 2021


Hi! You've got lots of questions about Easter, our Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker, the Easter Bunny, and we're got lots of answers!

Easter Calendar FAQs

Orthodox Easter 2022 occurs on Sunday, April 24, 2022.

This means that the Easter Bunny will start making final preparations for his Orthodox journey on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 2:00 AM EDT. These final preparations will take three hours.

The Easter Bunny will lift off from Easter Island on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:00 AM EDT, and we will start tracking him at this time.

The Easter Bunny will return home to Easter Island on Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 6:00 AM EDT.

Orthodox Easter 2023 occurs on Sunday, April 16, 2023.

This means that the Easter Bunny will start making final preparations for his Orthodox journey on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 2:00 AM EDT. These final preparations will take three hours.

The Easter Bunny will lift off from Easter Island on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 5:00 AM EDT, and we will start tracking him at this time.

The Easter Bunny will return home to Easter Island on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT.

Orthodox Easter 2024 occurs on Sunday, May 5, 2024.

This means that the Easter Bunny will start making final preparations for his Orthodox journey on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 2:00 AM EDT. These final preparations will take three hours.

The Easter Bunny will lift off from Easter Island on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT, and we will start tracking him at this time.

The Easter Bunny will return home to Easter Island on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT.

Orthodox Easter 2024 occurs on Sunday, April 20, 2025.

This means that the Easter Bunny will start making final preparations for his Orthodox journey on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM EDT. These final preparations will take three hours.

The Easter Bunny will lift off from Easter Island on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT, and we will start tracking him at this time.

The Easter Bunny will return home to Easter Island on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT.

Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker FAQs

For 2021, the Easter Bunny will start making final preparations for his Orthodox journey on April 23, 2022 at 2:00 AM EDT, and we will start the tracker at this time. These final preparations will take three hours.

The Easter Bunny will lift off from Easter Island on April 23, 2022 at 5:00 AM EDT, and we'll start tracking his movements at this time!

The Easter Bunny will return back home to Easter Island on April 24, 2022 at 6:00 AM EDT.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc provides real-time updates on the Easter Bunny's whereabouts every second for the 25 hours that the Easter Bunny is making deliveries during his Orthodox journey. He starts making deliveries west of the international date line, slowly progressing west across the world until returning to Easter Island.

In 2021, the Easter Bunny visited the islands of Kiribati and Tuvalu first, approximately 5-15 minutes after departure.

About 25 hours later, the Easter Bunny visited the islands of French Polynesia and the Pitcairn Islands before returning home to Easter Island.

Every year, the Easter Bunny usually follows this pattern for the first & last stop, but the specific stops may be different from year to year.

We use real-time satellite imagery, alongside traditional radar tracking and other modern technologies that allows us to track the Easter Bunny with extremely high accuracy. This allows us to bring you updates on the Easter Bunny's whereabouts every second!

We've continued to upgrade the technology we use so that our tracker can show more of the stops the Easter Bunny makes. For instance, in 2019, we detected about 400 stops, whereas in 2020 we detected about 600 stops. We expect to detect approximately 800-900 stops in 2021 as we continue to upgrade our technology.

We continue to be the most accurate Easter Bunny Tracker on the planet with our highly advanced technology.

Nope! The tracker will automatically update with the latest information available on the Easter Bunny's whereabouts. There's no need to worry about setting up auto-refresh plugins!

This is a known issue with the Google Maps that we use when the page is zoomed in at higher than 100% zoom level. This issue only affects Chrome and browsers based on Chrome.

Version 1 of track.orthodoxbunny.cc introduces a new setting in the Map Settings category to mitigate the issue, at the expense of a slightly distorted map. You'll see this setting if we detect you're using a browser affected by this known issue.

We're also aware that Firefox on Desktop has a slight issue where the map "warps" when the Easter Bunny moves when the page is zoomed in.

As we continue to build new features into the tracker, on older devices the tracker may begin to lag and generally be slower. If this is the case, we recommend turning off the bouncing effect for the Easter Bunny, switching your map mode to Street mode, and closing all other apps on your device.

If that isn't doing the trick, you can search for "orthodox easter bunny tracker live stream" on YouTube. Almost every stream on YouTube will be streaming track.orthodoxbunny.cc, so see if you can find one you might like!

Note: track.orthodoxbunny.cc is designed to be a lightweight tracker, so this mostly applies to older, low-end devices. Given you're using a modern phone from at least 2014, or a modern laptop from at least 2012, you should have a good experience.

When the Easter Bunny is travelling between two major cities, he makes numerous stops in smaller towns & cities. Although we continue to improve how many stops the tracker shows (for instance, Version 5 will show 2x the stops compared to Version 3), it would be impossible to show every stop the Easter Bunny makes.

If there are basket icons in your area, this means the Easter Bunny has likely visited your home.

After the Easter Bunny visits a city, you can click on the basket icon for more information about that city. You'll see the country flag, population, elevation, weather on arrival, and when the Easter Bunny arrived in the city.

You'll also see a quick exercept of the city from the corresponding Wikipedia article, with a source link to read more about the city.

Version 1 also includes navigation arrows in the top of the popup window, so you can explore the Easter Bunny's route with ease. When the map is uncentered on the Easter Bunny (or when tracking is done), clicking on these navigation arrows will pan the map to the stop you're looking at.

The weather information that you see when learning more about a stop is accurate for when the Easter Bunny arrived at the stop. It doesn't automatically update unfortunately.

We couldn't fit "Weather on arrival" in the pop-up window, so we had to abbreviate it to "Weather".

Yes you can! In the Map Settings section of tracker preferences, there is an option to enable the Easter Bunny bouncing effect. When turned on, the effect will be visible while the Easter Bunny is moving during tracking.

Note: Enabling this option will consume more CPU power, in turn potentially reducing battery life on laptops & phones.

Accurate to within 15 minutes of the Easter Bunny's arrival time in Version 5 of track.easterbunny.cc. We use your IP address to approximate when the Easter Bunny will arrive in your area, rather than using your precise location.

During tracking, you will see the arrival time decrease by half-hour increments. This changes to 15 minute increments in the final hour, up until 30 minutes from arrival.

When the Easter Bunny is in your area (give or take 10-15 minutes to when the Easter Bunny arrives at your house), the tracker will indicate that the Easter Bunny has arrived in your area.

After the Easter Bunny has left your area, the arrival text will go away.

Note: If you're using a VPN, you will have an arrival time estimate for wherever the VPN server is. For an accurate arrival estimate, turn off your VPN before loading the tracker.

Note: If you're using mobile data, your arrival estimate might be off by up to 30-60 minutes.

Unlike track.easterbunny.cc, we only plan on posting general status updates every hour or so on our Twitter page. This may change as more people begin to use track.orthodoxbunny.cc.

During tracking, we center the map on the Easter Bunny, which means you can't explore the map. You can uncenter the map by using the top icon in the icon stack in the bottom left of the tracker window. You can recenter the map on the Easter Bunny by clicking on the same icon again.

This icon won't appear during final preparations (the map is locked in place for final preparations), and when tracking is complete (the map is automatically uncentered once tracking is done).

You may have a setting in your browser to delete site data after closing your web browser. If this is the case, make sure this feature is disabled.

You can also check the tracker preferences page for a warning about local storage being unavailable, which would cause this issue. You can learn more about this issue in tracker preferences so that your issue can potentially be resolved.

Not at this time. track.orthodoxbunny.cc is designed as a web application first and foremost. We've designed our tracker this way for a great tracking experience no matter which device you use.

We continue to prioritize the web experience of track.orthodoxbunny.cc as it allows us to reach as many people as possible. However, we are planning to make native iOS and Android apps for track.easterbunny.cc in the next 3-5 years. Until then, the web version of TEBCC will be heavily worked on for the best experience possible!

The Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker will remain online until May 7, 2021 so that you can explore all the different places the Easter Bunny visited!

Easter Bunny FAQs

Yes. The Easter Bunny was able to successfully make all deliveries for Easter 2020 during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as an essential service, and was able to make deliveries for Easter 2021.

This year, we have received good news that the Easter Bunny has received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and intends to make all deliveries even with the ongoing pandemic.

Even though the Easter Bunny is vaccinated, the Easter Bunny takes safety seriously (and hopes you do too!). The Easter Bunny will wear a mask during deliveries, wash his hands frequently, and stay socially distanced whenever possible.

Although we don't know the precise location of where the Easter Bunny lives, we presume that he lives somewhere around Easter Island.

Similar to Santa Claus, we believe the Easter Bunny has helpers to decorate eggs, make baskets, and prepare the Easter Bunny for his big journey. Sometimes, these helpers are referred to as the "Easter Chicks".

We aren't sure how the Easter Bunny can travel around the world in a very short period of time. Similar to how Santa does it, modern science cannot explain how the Easter Bunny does it.

Yes. The Easter Bunny's helpers deliver the baskets and eggs to residents of Easter Island between 9 PM and 12 AM local time.

If you are using the tracker on Easter Island (kudos to you if you are!), the arrival estimate will likely be inaccurate.

We recommend that you don't try to catch the Easter Bunny! Similar to Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny can tell if you're trying to catch him. If the Easter Bunny detects that you're trying to catch him, he may not deliver eggs & baskets to your house!

The Easter Bunny doesn't require that you leave anything out for him to deliver your baskets & eggs. However, the Easter Bunny does enjoy eating carrots during his journey, so that he has the energy to stay on schedule!

During Easter 2021 on track.easterbunny.cc, we reported that the Easter Bunny delivered about 5.18 billion baskets to children all around the world. However, the Easter Bunny usually makes less deliveries for Orthodox Easter, so we expect the total baskets delivered to be around 1-1.5 billion in 2021.

We estimate that the Easter Bunny eats about 6-15 million carrots during his journey so that he has the needed energy to deliver so many baskets to children around the world.

Beginning with Version 1 of track.orthodoxbunny.cc, you'll be able to track the exact number of carrots that the Easter Bunny eats during his journey!

We estimate that the Easter Bunny covers somewhere around 400,000 to 500,000 kilometers during his Orthodox journey around the world.

Beginning with Version 1 of track.orthodoxbunny.cc, you'll be able to track exactly how much distance the Easter Bunny has covered in his Orthodox journey!

We estimate that the Easter Bunny can travel anywhere from 750 km/h in dense urban areas, to 75,000 km/h when crossing oceans & lightly populated areas.

Beginning with Version 5 of track.orthodoxbunny.cc, you'll be able to track exactly how fast the Easter Bunny is traveling between stops!

The Easter Bunny doesn't get any sleep during the Orthodox Easter Weekend, as he's up delivering baskets & eggs to children around the world.

However, the Easter Bunny does get a well deserved rest once his journey is done, and gets lots of rest throughout the rest of the year.

Not necessarily. The Easter Bunny will deliver baskets & eggs if you are not trying to catch him but you're awake.

We still recommend going to sleep about an hour or two before the Easter Bunny arrives so you get enough rest for Easter morning!

Don't worry - the Easter Bunny makes sure that all deliveries are accounted for. The Easter Bunny will be sure to deliver goodies to you, even when you're not at home.

The Easter Bunny is estimated to be between 400 and 500 years old according to scientists. The Easter Bunny was born sometime in the 1500s/1600s, as stories about the Easter Bunny began to surface in the late 1600s.

No. The same Easter Bunny that makes deliveries on Western Easter also makes the same deliveries for Orthodox Easter.

When you see Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker on our website, we are referring to the holiday Orthodox Easter, not a separate Easter Bunny.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc FAQs

Beginning with v1.5.2, we condensed the info page so that acknowledgements, the license, and source links can be found in the FAQs.

Acknowledgements can be found by clicking here.

Beginning with v1.5.2, we condensed the info page so that acknowledgements, the license, and source links can be found in the FAQs.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc uses the same codebase as track.easterbunny.cc with minor modifications to allow for the differences between the two sites. As such, track.orthodoxbunny.cc operates under the same license as track.easterbunny.cc. track.orthodoxbunny.cc is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. While you don't have to comply with the entire license to use the tracker, you agree that the tracker is provided as-is with no warranty, and that we can't be held liable for damages from using our tracker.

The full license text can be found by clicking here.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc uses the Google Fonts API to load in fonts. If your browser or network blocks fonts.googleapis.com, make sure this domain is unblocked. If you have a DNS blocker (such as Pi-hole), make sure this is also unblocked.

The fonts on the website might look slightly off due to your machine having the Roboto font installed. This is a known issue, and we're working to get this fixed.

Unfortunately, track.orthodoxbunny.cc is only available in English for 2021. We understand that Orthodox Easter is popular in Europe, where a wide variety of languages are used. Based on user feedback, we'll investigate potentially translating track.orthodoxbunny.cc into different languages.

If you can't use the tracker in English, we recommend using a browser that has translation functionalities built in (such as Google Chrome). Keep in mind that your tracking experience may be degraded by using automatic translating.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc is all about the tracking experience first and foremost. We're focused on building the best Easter Bunny Tracker we can for both track.easterbunny.cc & track.orthodoxbunny.cc, and that comes at the cost of having no games or other fun content surrounding the website.

You can stream track.orthodoxbunny.cc to any streaming service you wish, and post videos about track.orthodoxbunny.cc. You can monetize your live streams if you so desire.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc is brand new for 2021. As such, if you have a relatively popular stream without any attribution in the description, we may ask you to add attribution. The hard requirement is that it's required for streams with 50+ viewers, and highly recommended for 49 or less viewers.

This requirement will be dropped in 2022. We ask that you do not associate track.orthodoxbunny.cc with any acts of racism, hate speech, and discrimination against others. An example of this is putting track.orthodoxbunny.cc in a stream that shows approval of a person who is racist.

We condemn the association of track.orthodoxbunny.cc with any acts of racism, hate speech, and discrimination against others.

If you are streaming the tracker online, we have a set of optimal livestreaming settings that we think provide the best experience for others to view track.orthodoxbunny.cc online. You can find these settings under the Reset Settings section of tracker preferences.

If you're streaming the tracker via an OBS browser window, we recommend clearing out the custom CSS that OBS automatically puts in a browser window. You can do this by right clicking the Browser Source, going to properties, and clearing the field.

You can also set the zoom level of the tracker via OBS Custom CSS, using this code:

html {zoom: 125%}

You can replace the 125% zoom level with a zoom level you think works best for your stream.

Yes! We now have a new icon assets page where you can download the icons for the track.easterbunny.cc logo in a variety of sizes.

You can find the new icon assets page here: https://track.orthodoxbunny.cc/iconassets

We ask that you do not associate the track.orthodoxbunny.cc logo with any acts of racism, hate speech, and discrimination against others. An example of this is putting the track.orthodoxbunny.cc logo in a stream thumbnail alongside a public figure that is racist.

We condemn the assocation of the track.orthodoxbunny.cc logo with any acts of racism, hate speech, and discrimination against others.

Yes! track.orthodoxbunny.cc is based on the same code that runs track.easterbunny.cc, which is open-source.

You can find the tracker's source code on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/track-easterbunny-cc/tebcc

We ask that you do not associate the track.easterbunny.cc source code, unmodified or modified, with any acts of racism, hate speech, and discrimination against others. An example of this is putting modified track.easterbunny.cc source code on a website that endorses a public figure that is racist.

We condemn the association of track.easterbunny.cc source code, unmodified or modified, with any acts of racism, hate speech, and discrimination against others.

Yes, but with one big caveat. track.easterbunny.cc is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license, which requires you to pay your changes forward. If you use our source code, modify it, then release your tracker to the public, you are legally required to make your modified source code available (on GitLab, GitHub, etc) under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license, and document changes made.

The same principle applies if you incorporate the tracker code under a larger system, in that you are required to release the source code for that larger system (exceptions are made for integrating the tracker into a CMS system such as WordPress, Drupal, etc) under GNU AGPL v3.0. If you're confused about if you need to release your larger system's source code, get in touch with us and we can work things out.

We do not give paid exceptions to anyone regarding not releasing modified source code.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc launched in 2020 to provide a separate Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracking experience for those who celebrate Orthodox Easter. We understand that Orthodox Easter is a sacred holiday to many, and that the Easter Bunny is not commonly associated with Orthodox Easter. Therefore, there are no Orthodox Easter Bunny Trackers online.

Based on user feedback & sentiment from the initial 2021 run of track.orthodoxbunny.cc, we will determine the future course of track.orthodoxbunny.cc. We'd love to hear your feedback, so please consider getting in touch with us via email or Twitter. Details can be found in the support section of the FAQs.

Otherwise, track.orthodoxbunny.cc Version 1 is based on track.easterbunny.cc Version 5. If you use track.easterbunny.cc, you'll get the same tracking experience you know and love on track.orthodoxbunny.cc.

The same people who run track.easterbunny.cc! We have been in the Easter Bunny Tracking space since 2019, and after receiving comments from users about a lack of Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracking, wanted to launch an experimental run for 2021 to see how viable this can be.

track.easterbunny.cc is behind the recent innovations in Easter Bunny Tracking, including the world's first real-time Easter Bunny Tracker, and making a tracker of similar quality to NORAD & Google's Santa Trackers.

Note: We may include ethical ads on track.orthodoxbunny.cc this year as a test-bed for track.easterbunny.cc Version 6. We're still working out the details on this.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc has no intentions to make money off of end-users, and rather as a basis for a first-generation Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker for future evaluation.

We also care about your privacy, and havings ads on our website would be another vector for companies to track you around the web.

Orthodox Easter FAQs

Orthodox Easter is a holiday celebrated by Orthodox Christians to celebrate Jesus' resurrection. The date for Orthodox Christian date for Easter generally occurs later than the Easter date observed by western churches, as it is celebrated on the Easter Sunday date in the Julian calendar, compared to the Gregorian calendar for western Easter.

Orthodox Easter celebrate "the miracle of Easter" on the Easter Sunday date in the Julian calendar. Preparations for Orthodox Easter begin with 40 days of strict fasting before Easter Sunday. Additionally, many Orthodox Christians attend liturgies during the Holy Week that leads up to Easter Sunday.

It is known that the Easter Bunny makes a second journey around the world for people who observe Orthodox Easter, delivering baskets & eggs in a similar fashion to that of Western Easter, even though an Easter Bunny is not widely associated with Orthodox Easter.

track.orthodoxbunny.cc runs on the same code as track.easterbunny.cc, so there won't be many changes between the websites.

We plan to reflect a lower baskets delivered count in track.orthodoxbunny.cc. We also understand that Orthodox Easter has a strong connection to Greece, so we plan to show more stops in Greece compared to track.easterbunny.cc.

The FAQ & News pages are also separate between the two trackers.

Since this is our first year running an Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker, we welcome any feedback you have via email or Twitter.

Support FAQs

If you're having trouble with track.orthodoxbunny.cc, you can contact us on Twitter (through mentioning us, or with direct message), or via email. It's entirely up to you which communication method you prefer!

Our Twitter handle is @trackorthobunny.

Our support email address is support (at) easterbunny (dot) cc.

When requesting support, make sure to include as much detail as possible. The more detail you include, the faster we'll be able to solve your problem!

If you contact us, we may ask for diagnostic information about your device. In the final FAQ for this section, you'll find the Diagnostic Information you'll need to copy and send back to us.

Our response times to support inquiries for 2021 are as follows:
During tracking: Responses within 3 hours on Twitter & email
Before tracking, 14 days prior (Starting 4/17/2021): Responses within 24 hours on email & Twitter
All other times: Responses within 24 hours on email, 3-5 days on Twitter

If you're asked to provide diagnostic information, copy & paste the text formatted as code below. Make sure you do this on the device that you're having issues on.

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If the Browser, OS, and/or Device Type doesn't look right, we kindly ask for you to manually correct the affected fields before replying with your diagnostic information.
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