Sobriety calculator: days sober and milestones

The count is full days from your sober date to today, using your own device's date. On your sober date itself it reads zero. The next morning it reads one day. If your group counts the sober date as day 1, switch the count and every number moves up by one.

Years, months and days are calendar time, the same way a birthday is counted. The one-year mark lands on the same date as your sober date, a year later, not after 365 days. In a leap year those differ by one day, and people notice. A sober date of 29 February is marked on 28 February in other years.

Hours are full days times 24. The page does not ask for the hour of your last drink, so the 24 hours mark is the day after your sober date.

Many AA and other recovery groups hand out a chip, coin or medallion at set points. The list below is the set this page shows, the marks most widely celebrated.

None of these are set by AA itself. AA's own FAQ says its General Service Office does not produce, distribute or sell chips, coins or medallions, and that how groups celebrate sobriety is a matter of local choice. So your group may mark different days, or use a different colour for each. Go by theirs.

Enter the date your group counts from and read the milestone row. Reached marks are ticked, the next one is outlined with its date, and the later ones follow, so you can see when your 90 days or your first year falls before the meeting where it would be marked.

Day 0 or day 1 is the question people disagree about most. Both are in use. The toggle exists so the number here matches the one your sponsor or group says out loud.

A sobriety date is private, and a page that stored it would need an account, a database and a reason for you to trust both. This one needs none of that. The date never leaves your browser tab and is not put in the page address, so it does not end up in your history or in a link you share. The cost is that you retype the date each visit. Bookmarking the page does not keep it.

If you want a record that keeps itself, a daily tracker where each sober day is a filled box does that. It also shows the shape of a hard week in a way a single number cannot.

A count is a record, and a reset is a date, not a verdict. If you need someone to talk to in the US, SAMHSA's National Helpline is free, confidential and open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in English and Spanish, on 1-800-662-4357 (1-800-662-HELP). It can point you to local treatment, support groups and community services. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.