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Sobriety Counter

Count your sober days live. Enter the date of your last drink and watch the days, hours, minutes and seconds climb, second by second.

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Every second is a choice. You’re choosing right.

Not your date? Set the day of your last drink below and this counts from it.

0 days sober.

Day one to one year, log-stepped so the first week is visible
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Sixty and a hundred days have marks but no names: on this scale they sit within a hair of ninety, and three labels stacked on each other measure nothing.

Cleared.

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The Clock Starts
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The last drink is often still being absorbed, so blood alcohol can still be rising. Elimination then runs at a broadly fixed rate of about 0.015 g/100 mL an hour, and nothing speeds it up.

Your Body Right Now

Nothing on the ladder has passed yet. The first window is twenty minutes after the last drink, and it is where the clock starts rather than a finding of its own.

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Milestone Badges

Day One 1 days to go
1 Week 7 days to go
30 Days 30 days to go
60 Days 60 days to go
90 Days 90 days to go
100 Days 100 days to go
180 Days 180 days to go
1 Year 365 days to go
500 Days 500 days to go
1,000 Days 1,000 days to go

What date did I get sober, and when is the next milestone?

Forwards, this is a sobriety clock: the date goes in and the days climb from it, second by second. Backwards it is a sober date calculator — the day of your last drink is the whole input, and every milestone is that day plus a number of days. A sobriety date calculator is the same sum again. There is only one piece of arithmetic here, and the table prints both ends of it.

Counting from 26 August 2026, you are 0 days in.

Milestone Days sober Date it lands on
Day One 1 27 August 2026
1 Week 7 2 September 2026
30 Days 30 25 September 2026
60 Days 60 25 October 2026
90 Days 90 24 November 2026
100 Days 100 4 December 2026
180 Days 180 22 February 2027
1 Year 365 26 August 2027
500 Days 500 8 January 2028
1,000 Days 1,000 22 May 2029

Dates are whole days counted from your sobriety date, so a leap day and a change of clocks both take care of themselves. Day One is the day after your last drink, which is why the first rung is not the date you entered.

This link carries your date. Bookmark it, or send it to someone — the counter starts on its own when the page opens.

Add It to Your Home Screen

Save the link to your home screen and the counter opens like an app — one tap, already running.

iPhone & iPad

  1. Tap the Share button in Safari
  2. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen
  3. Tap Add

Android

  1. Tap the three-dot menu in Chrome
  2. Tap Add to Home screen
  3. Tap Add

Next: see what those days have already given you back in the sobriety savings calculator.

Embed This Counter

Run a recovery blog, a sober-curious newsletter, or a forum thread people check in on? Drop the counter straight into the page. It is a single line of HTML, it keeps counting on its own, and there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to maintain. What the embed loads is set out on our privacy page.

Live preview

That is the widget, running the demo date. Set your own date above and this preview — and both snippets below — switch to it.

For a blog post or sidebar

Paste this into any HTML block — WordPress custom HTML, Ghost, Squarespace, a Webflow embed. Copy both lines: the frame is the widget, and the line under it is the credit your readers can actually click and search engines can actually follow.

Height 132px suits the default card. Widen or narrow it freely — the card reflows.

For a forum signature

Almost every forum strips iframes out of signatures, so this one is BBCode: a link carrying your date, and a plain credit line. It works on phpBB, XenForo, vBulletin and Discourse, and it survives the quote button. If your forum allows HTML signatures, use the block above instead.

Your day count in the link text is a snapshot; the page it opens is live.

Free to use anywhere, commercial sites included. The only condition is the credit line — keep it visible and keep it a link. Questions: contact us.

How this is calculated

Your counter is the elapsed time between the date you enter and right now, calculated in your device's own timezone so day boundaries match your local midnight. The calculation happens in your browser. The milestones this page shows you are the same fifteen the sobriety timeline uses, placed at the window the alcohol literature reports for each change and claiming only what that literature supports: elimination at a broadly fixed rate in the first hours, withdrawal peaking at 24 to 72 hours, liver enzymes over 2 to 4 weeks, brain volumes at around three months, and cancer risk falling by a few per cent a year over many years. None of it is borrowed from the smoking-cessation timeline. They are population averages, not predictions about you.

Sources

Our editorial policy explains how these tools and articles are researched and kept up to date.

Why this matters

There is something quietly powerful about watching the seconds count up. It turns an invisible act of willpower into something tangible, something you can see accumulating in real time. Every tick of the clock is evidence that you are making a choice — and that you keep making it, over and over, second after second, hour after hour.

This counter is yours to bookmark, to revisit, to share. It does not judge where you started or how many times you have restarted. It simply counts forward from the moment you decided to change. Plenty of people set that moment on the first of a named month; if yours is October 1, the Sober October rules and a dated 31-day grid have a page of their own, and this counter carries on past October 31 when the month is over. And that moment — your moment — matters more than any number on the screen.

Read next: what happens 20 minutes after your last drink, and every window after it. The full sobriety timeline maps those windows against your own date. If you are counting your sober days in another app and want out, we also keep an honest I Am Sober alternative guide, and a wider look at the best sobriety tracker apps. Not started yet? Set a quit date and this counter will be waiting.

Asked and answered

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the same as a sobriety calculator?
Yes. Enter your quit date and it works out your sober days, hours and minutes, then keeps counting — some people call that a sobriety calculator, others a days sober calculator. If you want the money rather than the time, the sobriety savings calculator adds up what you have not spent.
Is this a sobriety clock?
Yes. A sobriety clock is this counter left running — days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking rather than sitting still. Enter the day of your last drink and it starts; close the page and it picks up where it should be, because the date is saved in your browser rather than on our side.
Is this a sober date calculator?
Yes. A sober date calculator is the same sum read the other way round: the date you stopped is the whole input, and everything else is that date plus a number of days. Enter yours and the page prints the days you have counted, the milestone you are heading for, and the calendar date each milestone lands on.
How do I work out my sobriety date?
Your sobriety date is the day of your last drink — not the day you decided to stop, and not the day the hangover cleared. Put that day in the field above and the arithmetic runs itself; a sobriety date calculator is doing nothing more than counting from it. If you restarted, use the most recent date: the count measures the distance from now, never a score.
Does the counter keep running if I close the page?
Yes. Your quit date is saved in your browser. When you return, the counter picks up exactly where it should be — no time is lost.
Can I share my sobriety counter?
Yes. The page builds a link that carries your date — anyone who opens it sees your counter running live, and you can save that link to your home screen so it opens like an app. There is also a button that copies your current count as text for social media.
Can I put the counter on my phone's home screen?
Yes. Copy your counter link, open it in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android, then use Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen, already counting, with no app install and no account.
What if I relapsed? Should I reset?
That's entirely your choice. Many people reset to their most recent quit date. Others track total sober days over a period. What matters is that you're here and trying — not a perfect number.

Sobriety Savings Calculator

What you have not spent since your last drink, from your own habit, projected out to a year.

Sobriety Timeline

Your quit date in, and every recovery milestone your body has already passed, with what comes next.

True Cost of Drinking

What a year of your current drinking costs in money, hours and calories, from the amount you actually drink.

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