What year is the setting of "The Jetsons"?

The setting of “The Jetsons” is the year 2062.

The futuristic date places the Jetson family exactly a century beyond the series’ 1962 debut. The show imagines George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy living in Orbit City among flying cars, robot servants, video calls, moving walkways, and homes suspended high above the ground.

A common mix-up is treating 2062 as a date repeatedly stated in dialogue. The original episodes generally do not announce the year explicitly; the date comes from the show’s promotional concept and later reference material describing its world as 100 years in the future. That convention nevertheless became the standard answer in trivia and popular culture.

The series premiered on ABC on September 23, 1962, and its vision of the future reflected Space Age optimism. It was designed as a technological counterpart to “The Flintstones,” which presented a comic version of the distant past. “The Jetsons” later gained 51 additional episodes through 1987, but its imagined setting remained associated with 2062.