Saturday

Julian Date for June 15, 2024

Saturday, June 15, 2024 is day 167 of 366 — the 167th day of 2024. Written as a Julian date it is 2024167.

Julian date (YYYYDDD)

2024167

5-digit (YYDDD)
24167
Day of year
167
Zero-padded (DDD)
167
Julian Day Number
2460477
Julian Date at 00:00 UTC
2460476.5
Modified Julian Date
60476.0

How 2024167 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 15, 2024 is the 167th day of 2024, so the code is 2024 + 167 = 2024167. Many systems drop the century and print 24167 instead.

2024 is a leap year with 366 days, so day numbers run from 001 to 366. After June 15, 2024 there are 199 days left in the year.

Careful: 24167 does not name a century

The 5-digit form 24167 only carries two digits of year, so on its own it is ambiguous. Day 167 of a year ending in 24 could equally be:

  • June 15, 2024 — the usual reading for a recent product code
  • June 15, 1924
  • June 15, 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 167 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 2021167 June 16, 2021
2022 2022167 June 16, 2022
2023 2023167 June 16, 2023
2024 2024167 June 15, 2024
2025 2025167 June 16, 2025
2026 2026167 June 16, 2026
2027 2027167 June 16, 2027

Astronomical Julian Date for June 15, 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 15, 2024 is 2460477 — that number covers the 24 hours from noon UTC on June 15, 2024 to noon UTC the next day.

  • JD at 00:00 UTC — 2460476.5
  • JD at 12:00 UTC — 2460477.0
  • Modified Julian Date (MJD) at 00:00 UTC — 60476.0

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

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