Excel Formula: Find Last Weekday of Month
This tutorial provides a formula to find the last specific weekday of the current month based on the given date in Excel.
If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.
Generic formula:
| EOMONTH(date,0)+1-WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(date,0)+1-weekday_num)) |
Syntaxt and Arguments
| Date: the date that you want to find its last specific weekday of the month. |
| Weekday_num: the number 1-7 to indicate the specific weekday that you want to find. |
Weekday Number
| Weekday Number | Weekday |
| 1 | Sunday |
| 2 | Monday |
| 3 | Tuesday |
| 4 | Wednesday |
| 5 | Thursday |
| 6 | Friday |
| 7 | Saturday |
Return Value
The formula returns to a numeric value, for directly viewing the date, please format the result as date format.
Error
If the argument date is not a valid date (a text value or a date before 1/1/1900), the formula returns to the error value #VALUE!.
How this formula works
In cell B3 is the date that you use, and in cell C3 contains the weekday number that you want to find of the month, please use below formula in cell D3:
| =EOMONTH(B3,0)+1-WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(B3,0)+1-C3) |
Press Enter key, then drag auto fill handle down to the cells needed.
Then click Home tab to go to the Number group, click the arrow of Number Format, then choose Short Date or Long Date from the drop-down list. Then the results have been formatted as date.
Explanation
EOMONTH function: to find the last day of the month.
WEEKDAY function: to get the day of week as number 1-7.
=EOMONTH(B3,0)+1-WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(B3,0)+1-C3)
=EOMONTH(B3,0)+1-WEEKDAY(1/31/2021+1-1)
=EOMONTH(B3,0)+1-WEEKDAY(1/31/2021)
=2/1/2021-1
=1/31/2021
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