What year was I born if I'm 63?
1962 or 1963
Anyone who is 63 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Tuesday, September 25, 1962 and Tuesday, September 24, 1963. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1962
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1963
- Birth years
- 1962 or 1963
- Age today
- 63
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Tuesday, September 24, 1963 turns 63 today. Someone born a day later, on Wednesday, September 25, 1963, is still 62 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 63 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Tuesday, September 25, 1962 and on or before Tuesday, September 24, 1963.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 63 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 1962from September 25, 1962
- Born in 1963up to September 24, 1963