What year was I born if I'm 88?
1937 or 1938
Anyone who is 88 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Saturday, September 25, 1937 and Saturday, September 24, 1938. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1937
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1938
- Birth years
- 1937 or 1938
- Age today
- 88
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Saturday, September 24, 1938 turns 88 today. Someone born a day later, on Sunday, September 25, 1938, is still 87 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 88 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Saturday, September 25, 1937 and on or before Saturday, September 24, 1938.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 88 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 1937from September 25, 1937
- Born in 1938up to September 24, 1938