☕ Caffeine Cutoff Calculator

Find the latest time you can have coffee without it stealing your night.

Caffeine's half-life in the body is about 5 hours: the 3 p.m. cup still has roughly a quarter of its caffeine blocking your sleep at midnight. This calculator uses a conservative 8-hour cutoff before bedtime to get you under the interference line. Full explanation and sources in the Academy article.

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