Sobriety Milestones
The milestones people mark are day one, a week, 30, 60, 90 and 100 days, 180, a year, 500 days, 1,000 — and then the date itself, every year. Put in the day of your last drink and every one of them gets a calendar date.
Your milestones, with their dates
Counted from 22 October 2026.
| Milestone | Date | Days | Card |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day One | 23 October 2026 · next | 1 | Open |
| 1 Week | 29 October 2026 | 7 | Open |
| 30 Days | 21 November 2026 | 30 | Open |
| 60 Days | 21 December 2026 | 60 | Open |
| 90 Days | 20 January 2027 | 90 | Open |
| 100 Days | 30 January 2027 | 100 | Open |
| 180 Days | 20 April 2027 | 180 | Open |
| 1 Year | 22 October 2027 | 365 | Open |
| 500 Days | 5 March 2028 | 500 | Open |
| 2 Years | 22 October 2028 | 731 | Open |
| 1,000 Days | 18 July 2029 | 1,000 | Open |
| 3 Years | 22 October 2029 | 1,096 | Open |
| 4 Years | 22 October 2030 | 1,461 | Open |
| 5 Years | 22 October 2031 | 1,826 | Open |
| 6 Years | 22 October 2032 | 2,192 | Open |
| 7 Years | 22 October 2033 | 2,557 | Open |
| 8 Years | 22 October 2034 | 2,922 | Open |
| 9 Years | 22 October 2035 | 3,287 | Open |
| 10 Years | 22 October 2036 | 3,653 | Open |
The calendar file
Every milestone as an all-day entry, plus your anniversary for each of the next ten years. Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook all read it. Download it again whenever you like — the entries update rather than doubling.
Download the calendar fileA plain .ics file. Nothing in an entry says anything about your body: a calendar entry outlives the page that wrote it and cannot be corrected once it is on a phone.
The milestone card
One rung, drawn large: the milestone, the date it falls on, and nothing else. Open it from the table above, screenshot it, send it to whoever you would tell.
Each card has its own address, and the address carries your date — so the link still shows the right card when somebody else opens it.
Put it on your own page
If you write about recovery, this is the next three milestones and their dates, sized for a sidebar. Paste both lines: the frame is the widget, and the link underneath is what tells a reader where it came from.
The link belongs outside the frame. A page inside an iframe passes nothing on, so the visible line under it is the part that counts.
Why people mark them
Because the days blur, and because the work is invisible. Nobody else sees the Friday night stayed in or the craving walked through, so a date is the only thing that makes the weight of them add up to something you can point at. Twelve-step groups have handed out chips and coins on these intervals for decades, and treatment programmes and apps have copied the intervals since.
There is no official ladder. The rungs on this page are the ones people actually say out loud, and one of them — a week — is short enough to reach from anywhere. Our guide to the milestones worth celebrating covers what people do when one arrives, and what 100 days looks like follows one of them in particular.
What happens in a body over the same stretch is a different question with sourced answers: the sobriety timeline lays out the recovery windows against the evidence for each one. This page counts days and prints dates, and deliberately claims nothing else.
If you want the count running live rather than a list of dates, the sobriety counter is the same ladder with a clock on it, and the sobriety certificate prints any rung you have reached on a sheet worth framing.