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What year was I born if I'm 24?

2001 or 2002

Anyone who is 24 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Tuesday, September 25, 2001 and Tuesday, September 24, 2002. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.

Earliest birth date
September 25, 2001
Latest birth date
September 24, 2002
Birth years
2001 or 2002
Age today
24

Which year, exactly

Someone born on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 turns 24 today. Someone born a day later, on Wednesday, September 25, 2002, is still 23 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 24 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Tuesday, September 25, 2001 and on or before Tuesday, September 24, 2002.

There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 24 today has had a birthday every year since they were born. Twenty-five of the hundred ages on this site do span a leap day; this is not one of them.

The two candidate years

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