Random Date Generator

Generate random dates inside a range you choose. Useful for seeding test data, building sample spreadsheets, or picking a date when nobody can agree on one.

Random dates

Press Generate to get a result.

About the Random Date Generator

Test data that behaves like real data

Seeding a database with the same date on every row hides an entire category of bugs. Sorting looks fine, date-range filters look fine, and the first real dataset breaks all of it. Spreading dates across a realistic range surfaces the off-by-one errors, timezone slips and month-boundary mistakes while they are still cheap to fix.

The birthday range is there for the same reason: age-gated flows need ages that are plausible, not a row of identical January firsts.

Formats and why they matter

08/09/2026 is the ninth of August in the United States and the eighth of September nearly everywhere else, an ambiguity that has caused real outages. ISO 8601 — 2026-08-09 — is unambiguous and sorts correctly as plain text, which is why it is the default here.

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