What year was I born if I'm 37?
1988 or 1989
Anyone who is 37 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Monday, November 14, 1988 and Monday, November 13, 1989. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1988
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1989
- Birth years
- 1988 or 1989
- Age today
- 37
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Monday, November 13, 1989 turns 37 today. Someone born a day later, on Tuesday, November 14, 1989, is still 36 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 37 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Monday, November 14, 1988 and on or before Monday, November 13, 1989.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 37 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 1988from November 14, 1988
- Born in 1989up to November 13, 1989