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What year was I born if I'm 24?

2001 or 2002

Anyone who is 24 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Wednesday, November 14, 2001 and Wednesday, November 13, 2002. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
Earliest birth date
November 14, 2001
Latest birth date
November 13, 2002
Birth years
2001 or 2002
Age today
24

Which year, exactly

Someone born on Wednesday, November 13, 2002 turns 24 today. Someone born a day later, on Thursday, November 14, 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 Wednesday, November 14, 2001 and on or before Wednesday, November 13, 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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