What year was I born if I'm 6?
2019 or 2020
Anyone who is 6 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Thursday, November 14, 2019 and Friday, November 13, 2020. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 2019
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 2020
- Birth years
- 2019 or 2020
- Age today
- 6
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Friday, November 13, 2020 turns 6 today. Someone born a day later, on Saturday, November 14, 2020, is still 5 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 6 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Thursday, November 14, 2019 and on or before Friday, November 13, 2020.
That window contains 29 February 2020, so some people who are 6 today were born on a date that only comes round every four years — 6 years old with 1 birthdays behind them rather than 6. The next 29 February is when they have another.
The two candidate years
- Born in 2019from November 14, 2019
- Born in 2020up to November 13, 2020