What year was I born if I'm 98?
1927 or 1928
Anyone who is 98 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Sunday, September 25, 1927 and Monday, September 24, 1928. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1927
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1928
- Birth years
- 1927 or 1928
- Age today
- 98
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Monday, September 24, 1928 turns 98 today. Someone born a day later, on Tuesday, September 25, 1928, is still 97 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 98 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Sunday, September 25, 1927 and on or before Monday, September 24, 1928.
That window contains 29 February 1928, so some people who are 98 today were born on a date that only comes round every four years — 98 years old with 24 birthdays behind them rather than 98. The next 29 February is when they have another.
The two candidate years
- Born in 1927from September 25, 1927
- Born in 1928up to September 24, 1928