diff --git a/i18n/en/settings.js b/i18n/en/settings.js
index 937f87abd5ad12ad635623a585aa3288b7ab2a21..ad6dd471f66a7134605317a250b7bc8c8fbe043f 100644
--- a/i18n/en/settings.js
+++ b/i18n/en/settings.js
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ export default {
     deleteOption: 'Import and delete existing',
     errors: {
       couldNotOpenFile: 'Could not open file',
-      postFix: 'No data was imported or changed'
+      postFix: 'No data was imported or changed',
+      futureEdit: 'Future dates may only contain a note, no other symptoms'
     },
     success: {
       message: 'Data successfully imported'
diff --git a/lib/import-export/import-from-csv.js b/lib/import-export/import-from-csv.js
index 4731eeadb28e1e5fb0cab07bb60bd8165ef26b2f..1bdc8d80fd85e2aaf66baa98cfa53b37e6306fde 100644
--- a/lib/import-export/import-from-csv.js
+++ b/lib/import-export/import-from-csv.js
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import {
   updateCycleStartsForAllCycleDays
 } from '../../db'
 import getColumnNamesForCsv from './get-csv-column-names'
+import { LocalDate } from 'js-joda'
+import labels from '../../i18n/en/settings'
 
 export default async function importCsv(csv, deleteFirst) {
   const parseFuncs = {
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ export default async function importCsv(csv, deleteFirst) {
 
   //remove symptoms where all fields are null
   putNullForEmptySymptoms(cycleDays)
+  throwIfFutureData(cycleDays)
 
   if (deleteFirst) {
     tryToImportWithDelete(cycleDays)
@@ -87,4 +90,15 @@ function getDbType(modelProperties, path) {
   if (path.length === 1) return modelProperties[path[0]].type
   const modelName = modelProperties[path[0]].objectType
   return getDbType(schema[modelName], path.slice(1))
+}
+
+function throwIfFutureData(cycleDays) {
+  const today = LocalDate.now().toString()
+  for (const i in cycleDays) {
+    const day = cycleDays[i]
+    // notes are allowed for future dates but everything else isn't
+    if (day.date > today && Object.keys(day).some(symptom => symptom != 'date' && symptom != 'note')) {
+      throw new Error(labels.import.errors.futureEdit)
+    }
+  }
 }
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