What year was I born if I'm 14?
2011 or 2012
Anyone who is 14 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Sunday, September 25, 2011 and Monday, September 24, 2012. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 2011
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 2012
- Birth years
- 2011 or 2012
- Age today
- 14
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Monday, September 24, 2012 turns 14 today. Someone born a day later, on Tuesday, September 25, 2012, is still 13 until tomorrow. That is why “what year” has two answers rather than one, and why a birth date rather than a year is what settles it.
Read the other way round: to be exactly 14 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Sunday, September 25, 2011 and on or before Monday, September 24, 2012.
That window contains 29 February 2012, so some people who are 14 today were born on a date that only comes round every four years — 14 years old with 3 birthdays behind them rather than 14. The next 29 February is when they have another.
The two candidate years
- Born in 2011from September 25, 2011
- Born in 2012up to September 24, 2012