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What year was I born if I'm 4?

2021 or 2022

Anyone who is 4 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Saturday, September 25, 2021 and Saturday, September 24, 2022. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.

Earliest birth date
September 25, 2021
Latest birth date
September 24, 2022
Birth years
2021 or 2022
Age today
4

Which year, exactly

Someone born on Saturday, September 24, 2022 turns 4 today. Someone born a day later, on Sunday, September 25, 2022, is still 3 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 4 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Saturday, September 25, 2021 and on or before Saturday, September 24, 2022.

There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 4 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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