Where Life Goes takes the way you spend a normal day — hours asleep, at work, commuting, cooking, scrolling — and multiplies it across the years you have left. The result is an honest picture of where a life actually goes: years already spent, years still ahead, and what a small change to any one habit would buy back.
Why I built it
It started as a spreadsheet. I was trying to answer a slightly morbid question — roughly how many summers do I have left? Once I'd worked that out, I wanted to see the rest: how many years I'd spend commuting, how many I'd already handed to my phone, how many were genuinely still mine to spend.
The numbers were sobering enough that I turned the spreadsheet into this.
That's the whole idea. Not productivity guilt, not a life-optimisation system — just a clear look at the arithmetic most of us would rather not do.
How it works
You enter your age, your country, and how you spend a typical 24 hours. The calculator projects each habit across your remaining life expectancy and shows the totals three ways: your day broken down to the minute, your lifetime in years, and your whole life laid out week by week in a single grid.
Life expectancy figures come from the WHO Global Health Observatory and the World Bank. The daily averages it compares you against come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey and the OECD Time Use Database. Every calculation runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is stored, sent to a server, or shared.
Who makes it
Where Life Goes is an independent project, built and maintained by one person. It's free to use, with no account to create and no newsletter to dodge. The site is supported by a few unobtrusive ads and the occasional affiliate link, all of which are clearly disclosed.
A word on the numbers
These are projections built on population averages, not predictions about you specifically. They don't know your health, your genetics, or how your life will actually unfold — and they aren't medical, financial, or psychological advice. Treat them as a mirror, not a chart from your doctor. The full disclaimer lives in the Terms of Use.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or a data source I should be using? Email hello@wherelifegoes.com. I read everything that comes in.
See where your life goes
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