What year was I born if I'm 43?
1982 or 1983
Anyone who is 43 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Saturday, September 25, 1982 and Saturday, September 24, 1983. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1982
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1983
- Birth years
- 1982 or 1983
- Age today
- 43
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Saturday, September 24, 1983 turns 43 today. Someone born a day later, on Sunday, September 25, 1983, is still 42 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 43 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Saturday, September 25, 1982 and on or before Saturday, September 24, 1983.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 43 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 1982from September 25, 1982
- Born in 1983up to September 24, 1983