What year was I born if I'm 48?
1977 or 1978
Anyone who is 48 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Sunday, September 25, 1977 and Sunday, September 24, 1978. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1977
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1978
- Birth years
- 1977 or 1978
- Age today
- 48
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Sunday, September 24, 1978 turns 48 today. Someone born a day later, on Monday, September 25, 1978, is still 47 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 48 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Sunday, September 25, 1977 and on or before Sunday, September 24, 1978.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 48 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 1977from September 25, 1977
- Born in 1978up to September 24, 1978