What year was I born if I'm 14?
2011 or 2012
Anyone who is 14 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Monday, November 14, 2011 and Tuesday, November 13, 2012. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 2011
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 2012
- Birth years
- 2011 or 2012
- Age today
- 14
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 turns 14 today. Someone born a day later, on Wednesday, November 14, 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 Monday, November 14, 2011 and on or before Tuesday, November 13, 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 November 14, 2011
- Born in 2012up to November 13, 2012