What year was I born if I'm 22?
2003 or 2004
Anyone who is 22 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Friday, November 14, 2003 and Saturday, November 13, 2004. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 2003
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 2004
- Birth years
- 2003 or 2004
- Age today
- 22
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Saturday, November 13, 2004 turns 22 today. Someone born a day later, on Sunday, November 14, 2004, is still 21 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 22 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Friday, November 14, 2003 and on or before Saturday, November 13, 2004.
That window contains 29 February 2004, so some people who are 22 today were born on a date that only comes round every four years — 22 years old with 5 birthdays behind them rather than 22. The next 29 February is when they have another.
The two candidate years
- Born in 2003from November 14, 2003
- Born in 2004up to November 13, 2004