Calculate age in years months and days in mysql

When we are dealing with dates in mysql sometimes we need to calculate the age in years months and days directly from the mysql query

We can easily achieve it from the below sql query


SELECT name,dob,
CONCAT(TIMESTAMPDIFF( YEAR, dob, now() ),' Years,',
TIMESTAMPDIFF( MONTH, dob, now() ) % 12,' Months,',
FLOOR( TIMESTAMPDIFF( DAY, dob, now() ) % 30.4375 ),' Days')
as AGE from users

And the output of the query will shown like this


+-----------------+------------+-----------------------------+
| name            | dob        |  Age                        |     
+-----------------+------------+-----------------------------+
| Arun            | 1989-09-07 | 25 Years, 6 Months, 8 Days  |
| Disilva         | 1960-12-04 | 54 Years, 3 Months, 11 Days |
| Pam             | 1990-07-03 | 24 Years, 8 Months, 13 Days |
+-----------------+------------+-----------------------------+

2 Comments on “Calculate age in years months and days in mysql

  1. manjiri
    December 27, 2015

    the above query does not consider all the possible values of dob and now(_;

    • navaneeth
      December 28, 2015

      Pls share the possible values

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