how old was edward in twilight

Edward is 17 years old in Twilight in terms of his physical age, but about 104 years old if you count from his birth date.

Quick Scoop

• Edward Cullen was born on June 20, 1901.

• He was turned into a vampire at age 17 during the 1918 Spanish influenza outbreak.

• By the time of the first Twilight book/movie (set in the early 2000s), he has been 17 for roughly a century, making him about 104 years old chronologically.

So when people ask “how old was Edward in Twilight” , the in-universe answer is:

• “17” if you mean how old he looks and how old he’s pretending to be at school.

• “About 104” if you mean how long he’s actually been alive.

In the story, the running joke is that he’s a forever-teenager who’s been stuck in high school for decades, which is part of why the age-gap discourse around Twilight is still a popular forum and fandom topic today.

TL;DR: Edward is a 17-year-old vampire who has been 17 for about 100 years by the time Twilight begins.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.