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Julian Date for June 13, 2024

Thursday, June 13, 2024 is day 165 of 366 — the 165th day of 2024. Written as a Julian date it is 2024165.

Julian date (YYYYDDD)

2024165

5-digit (YYDDD)
24165
Day of year
165
Zero-padded (DDD)
165
Julian Day Number
2460475
Julian Date at 00:00 UTC
2460474.5
Modified Julian Date
60474.0

How 2024165 is built

A Julian date in the day-of-year sense is just the year followed by the day number, counted from 1 January. June 13, 2024 is the 165th day of 2024, so the code is 2024 + 165 = 2024165. Many systems drop the century and print 24165 instead.

2024 is a leap year with 366 days, so day numbers run from 001 to 366. After June 13, 2024 there are 201 days left in the year.

Careful: 24165 does not name a century

The 5-digit form 24165 only carries two digits of year, so on its own it is ambiguous. Day 165 of a year ending in 24 could equally be:

  • June 13, 2024 — the usual reading for a recent product code
  • June 13, 1924
  • June 13, 2124

If you are reading a code off packaging, the surrounding context — a shelf life of months rather than decades — almost always settles it.

Day 165 in nearby years

The same day number lands on a different calendar date depending on whether the year is a leap year. This is the single most common mistake when decoding a code whose year you had to guess.

YearJulian dateCalendar date
2021 2021165 June 14, 2021
2022 2022165 June 14, 2022
2023 2023165 June 14, 2023
2024 2024165 June 13, 2024
2025 2025165 June 14, 2025
2026 2026165 June 14, 2026
2027 2027165 June 14, 2027

Astronomical Julian Date for June 13, 2024

In astronomy, "Julian Date" means something different: a continuous count of days since noon on 1 January 4713 BC. The Julian Day Number for June 13, 2024 is 2460475 — that number covers the 24 hours from noon UTC on June 13, 2024 to noon UTC the next day.

  • JD at 00:00 UTC — 2460474.5
  • JD at 12:00 UTC — 2460475.0
  • Modified Julian Date (MJD) at 00:00 UTC — 60474.0

See Julian Day for where the count comes from, or the astronomical converter to include a time of day.

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