what year is fallout 4 set in

Fallout 4 is set in the year 2287. This is 10 years after the events of Fallout 3 and 210 years after the Great War, which was a war between the United States and China over natural resources that ended in a nuclear holocaust in 2077. The game takes place in and around the Boston area, in a post-apocalyptic retro-future environment.