Your life in weeks
Every square is one week. Add your date of birth to see the weeks behind you, the one you’re in, and the many still ahead.
A 90-year life is 4,680 weeks
One row for each year, one square for each week. Enter your date of birth above to fill in the weeks you’ve already lived — until then, explore the grid and the notable weeks marked on it.
- Weeks lived (filled)
- This week (ringed)
- Weeks ahead (outlined)
- A notable week (diamond)
- Childhood (0–12)
- Teenage years (13–19)
- Adulthood (20–64)
- Later life (65+)
Age 0, week 1
Week 1 of 4,680
To explore, select the grid and use the arrow keys (one week or one year at a time), Page Up and Page Down (ten years), Home and End (start and end of a year). Press Enter on a diamond to read about that week.
Shared links include your birth date after the # sign. It never reaches our server, but anyone with the link can see it.
Notable weeks
What a few remarkable people did in one particular week of their lives. Each is marked with a diamond on the grid at the same age and week — select a name for the details.
age 14, week 36
Scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics, on the uneven bars at the Montreal Games.
age 17, week 36
Scored twice in the World Cup final as Brazil beat Sweden 5–2 to win its first world title.
age 20, week 18
Saw Frankenstein published in London, anonymously — a novel she had started writing at 18.
age 22, week 48
Won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics, in the 4 × 100 m relay.
age 27, week 5
Became the first person in space, circling Earth once aboard Vostok 1 in about 108 minutes.
age 34, week 33
Gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of about 250,000 at the March on Washington.
age 34, week 44
Landed in Northern Ireland as the first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic.
age 36, week 5
Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on radioactivity, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
age 38, week 50
Became the first person to walk on the Moon, during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
age 42, week 43
Refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, which set off the Montgomery bus boycott.
age 50, week 41
Published On the Origin of Species, setting out his theory of evolution by natural selection.
age 55, week 18
Published Silent Spring, whose warnings about pesticides helped start the modern environmental movement.
age 62, week 28
Gave the first rabies vaccine to a person — nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who survived.
age 75, week 43
Was sworn in as South Africa’s first democratically elected president, four years after leaving prison.
age 79, week 18
Saw his last opera, Falstaff, open at La Scala in Milan.
How the grid works
Each row is one year of life, starting on a birthday, and its 52 squares are the weeks that follow — the last square also covers the extra day or two, so rows always match your age. Filled squares are weeks you’ve lived, the ringed square is this week and outlined squares are the weeks ahead. Soft background shades mark childhood, the teenage years, adulthood and later life.
The US option adds your age to the average years remaining for someone your age in the 2023 US period life table (Social Security Administration). That’s an average over millions of people, not a forecast for you. People born on February 29 move a year along on March 1 in common years.
A picture, not a prediction. The grid is a way to see time at a glance. It can’t tell anyone how long they’ll live — for a personal estimate with its sources, try the life expectancy estimate.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does each row have 52 squares?
A year is 52 weeks plus a day or two. Each row runs from one birthday to the next, and its last square also holds those extra days, so every row lines up exactly with an age. Row 31, square 12 is the twelfth week after a 31st birthday.
Is my birth date sent anywhere?
No. The grid is drawn in your browser, and your date is kept only in the page address after the # sign — the part browsers never send to a server. A bookmark or a shared link rebuilds the same grid, so share it only with people you'd tell your birthday to.
Which lifespan should I pick?
80, 90 and 100 years are round horizons to think with. "US life expectancy for my age" adds your current age to the average years left for people your age in the 2023 US period life table, so it changes as you get older.
How are the weeks I’ve lived counted?
We count full seven-day weeks from the day you were born up to today, using your device's date. Nothing is stored, so the count simply moves on: come back next week and one more week is filled in.