The story of WALL-E takes place in the year 2805.
The film opens on a future Earth that has been abandoned after overwhelming waste and environmental collapse made the planet uninhabitable. By 2805, the compacting robots known as WALL-E units have mostly stopped functioning, leaving one active WALL-E to continue sorting and stacking humanity’s garbage.
The date is part of the film’s larger time scale. The Axiom’s passengers have been away from Earth for roughly 700 years, living aboard an automated luxury starliner operated by Buy n Large. The captain’s recorded history and the ship’s routines show how several generations have become dependent on technology.
The year is not 2105 or 2500, and 3000 is not stated as the setting. WALL-E’s future is deliberately distant enough to make the ecological damage and humanity’s technological dependence feel like the result of a long historical process rather than a near-term event.