What year was I born if I'm 8?
2017 or 2018
Anyone who is 8 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Tuesday, November 14, 2017 and Tuesday, November 13, 2018. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 2017
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 2018
- Birth years
- 2017 or 2018
- Age today
- 8
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 turns 8 today. Someone born a day later, on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, is still 7 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 8 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Tuesday, November 14, 2017 and on or before Tuesday, November 13, 2018.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 8 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 2017from November 14, 2017
- Born in 2018up to November 13, 2018