What year was I born if I'm 28?
1997 or 1998
Anyone who is 28 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Friday, November 14, 1997 and Friday, November 13, 1998. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1997
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1998
- Birth years
- 1997 or 1998
- Age today
- 28
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Friday, November 13, 1998 turns 28 today. Someone born a day later, on Saturday, November 14, 1998, is still 27 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 28 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Friday, November 14, 1997 and on or before Friday, November 13, 1998.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 28 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
- Born in 1997from November 14, 1997
- Born in 1998up to November 13, 1998