The erratum for the article "Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop" by James C. Bird, Rajeev Dhiman, Hyuk-Min Kwon, and Krupa K. Varanasi, published in *Nature* 503, 385–388 (2013), corrects the 'received' date to 29 June 2012, which was mistakenly listed as 29 June 2013. This correction has been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the paper.The erratum for the article "Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop" by James C. Bird, Rajeev Dhiman, Hyuk-Min Kwon, and Krupa K. Varanasi, published in *Nature* 503, 385–388 (2013), corrects the 'received' date to 29 June 2012, which was mistakenly listed as 29 June 2013. This correction has been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the paper.