What year was I born if I'm 47?
1978 or 1979
Anyone who is 47 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Tuesday, November 14, 1978 and Tuesday, November 13, 1979. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1978
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1979
- Birth years
- 1978 or 1979
- Age today
- 47
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Tuesday, November 13, 1979 turns 47 today. Someone born a day later, on Wednesday, November 14, 1979, is still 46 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 47 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Tuesday, November 14, 1978 and on or before Tuesday, November 13, 1979.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 47 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 1978from November 14, 1978
- Born in 1979up to November 13, 1979