Readers of Points With a Crew know that I am a sucker for map and “list checking” records. I currently hold records in the following areas
- Fastest time to visit all 88 counties in Ohio
- Fastest time to visit 67 counties in the 6 New England states (with Video)
- Fastest time to jump in all 5 Great Lakes
- Fastest time to visit all 41 libraries in Hamilton County
While Guinness doesn’t endorse speed records on public roads (which kinda makes some sense!), one record that they do have is for the “Longest Birthday Ever”.
How to get the Longest Birthday Ever
The official Guinness World Records blog talks about German man Sven Hagemeier, who decided to set the world record for the Longest Birthday. He flew from Auckland, New Zealand to Brisbane, Australia then over the International Date Line to Honolulu, Hawaii
Photo from GCmap.com
The trick is the Brisbane to Honolulu flight. The article doesn’t say specifically which flight he took, but this is (currently) the only nonstop between Brisbane and Honolulu. It leaves at 10:30 p.m. but then crosses over the international date line and arrives at 11:55 a.m. (the same day!)
But can it be beaten?
46 hours is a pretty long birthday, but it seems that it might be beatable. A lot of that might depend on how exactly Guinness counts the record. But if so, maybe that could be a new addition to my travel bucket list.
What’s your longest day? Have you ever had a birthday last more than 24 hours? Leave notes in the comments
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Properly timed on a ship it could be 47:59:59. Walking a few hundred miles SE of McMurdo you could theoretically have one foot in each time zone.
Or start in Samoa if it has to be on a plane.
I had two birthdays this year. Celebrated in bangkok then flew bkk-hkg-lax. Flight from hkg to lax left at 12:15 am the day after my birthday, but landed in lax on the night of my birthday. CX 1st was a nice way to celebrate.
That’s cool – I’ve heard of people celebrating New Year’s Eve the same way
November 8th, 2016.
Flew SYD-LAX-SLC-DCA.
Not 100% of the math, but flew out at 2PM local, got back into DC 11PM local same day. 9,950 miles in one day.
Hey, Nick beat me to it!! One year, I left Auckland on my birthday, arrived Honolulu the day before my birthday, so got to celebrate a second birthday!! (Normally the flight schedules don’t work for this, but my AKL-HNL flight was delayed and left in the morning.)
My wife had 4 birthday cakes this year due to flying. Her birthday was on Wed. We had a late flight on Tuesday from Doha,Qatar arriving at 2am in Biz. They gave her a cake on Wed, her Birthday. The Holiday Inn in Qatar gave her a cake the next morning (was supposed to be the night before). Flying first later that night from Delhi to Singapore in First Suites, they did a cake with little sparkler like things. Upon arrival at Conrad the next morning, the concierge noticed she must have flown and missed her birthday and sent a cake to our suite (upgraded with Diamond). So three on her birthday and one the next day.
I managed a 37-hour birthday heading westbound halfway around the world, during the summer a couple of years back, starting at Bishkek in Central Asia about 6:00 am and ending in Vancouver before midnight. I flew over 8100 miles, FRU-IST-LAX-YVR (mostly TK, and the final leg AC).
Yeah I feel like you might be able to get more than 48 hours if you flew west? I would love someone to give me a sample itinerary on that