What year was I born if I'm 28?
1997 or 1998
Anyone who is 28 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Thursday, September 25, 1997 and Thursday, September 24, 1998. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1997
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1998
- Birth years
- 1997 or 1998
- Age today
- 28
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Thursday, September 24, 1998 turns 28 today. Someone born a day later, on Friday, September 25, 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 Thursday, September 25, 1997 and on or before Thursday, September 24, 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 September 25, 1997
- Born in 1998up to September 24, 1998