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Age Calculator

Find out exactly how old you are and when your next birthday lands.

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Frequently asked questions

How is age calculated exactly?

By calendar difference rather than dividing days by 365.25 — years first, then months, then remaining days. That is why the result matches how people actually count age, including through leap years.

How are birthdays on 29 February handled?

In non-leap years the birthday is treated as falling on 1 March for counting purposes, which is the common legal convention in most jurisdictions. Some treat it as 28 February, so check if it matters formally.

Can I calculate age at a specific past or future date?

Yes — set the target date rather than using today. That is what you need for eligibility cut-offs, school year placement, or working out someone's age at a historical event.

Pro tips

  • Set the 'as of' date to the date the rule actually cares about — the cutoff, the event, the policy start — rather than reading today's age and adjusting mentally.
  • For anything legal or financial, use the exact day count rather than a rounded year; eligibility thresholds are usually defined to the day.
  • Check the total-days figure when comparing two people's ages closely, since years-and-months hides differences of a few days.
  • Be careful with dates entered in ambiguous formats — 03/04 is two different days depending on which side of the Atlantic wrote it.
  • Remember that 'age next birthday' is what some insurance and sports categories use, which is not the same as age today.

About Age Calculator

Gives the breakdown as well as the headline number: total days lived, and how long remains until the next birthday. Useful for forms that want an exact age on a particular date rather than on today's.

Find your exact age in years, months and days from your date of birth, plus totals in weeks and days and a countdown to your next birthday. The dates you enter never leave your browser.

Calculate an exact age in years, months and days from a date of birth, plus the totals in weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds, and a countdown to the next birthday. It is the quick way to answer 'how old am I?' or to work out anyone's precise age on a given date.

Set the 'as of' date to any day to find an age in the past or the future, not only today. That is the part most age calculators leave out, and it is exactly what forms and eligibility rules tend to ask for.

Exact age is fiddlier than a year subtraction because the calendar is irregular. Months differ in length, February changes length every fourth year, and some edge cases have no universally agreed answer: someone born on 31 January is either 28 February or 3 March old one month later depending on the convention applied. People born on 29 February meet the sharpest version — their birthday exists in one year out of four, and jurisdictions differ on whether they legally age on 28 February or 1 March in the others.

The 'as of' date is what turns this from trivia into something useful. Eligibility rules almost never ask how old someone is today: they ask how old they were on the date of an event, or will be at the start of a school year, a policy term or a tournament season. Computing the age on that specific date from the two dates is more reliable than estimating from a year difference and hoping the months work out.

Common use cases

  • Working out an exact age in years, months and days
  • Checking age eligibility against a specific cut-off date
  • Finding how many days remain until a birthday or milestone
How it comparesA search engine will tell you today's age from a birth year and stop there. The 'as of' date and the exact day count are the parts that matter for forms and eligibility, and they are what most quick answers leave out.