How to calculate days until next birthday in Excel?
If you want to know how many days remaining until your next birthday, how would you do? Actually, if you are using Microsoft Excel, you can use formulas in the worksheet to easily count the days until next birthday. Please browse for more details as below tutorial shows.
Count days until next birthday with formulas

Count days until next birthday with formulas
For counting days until next birthday with formulas, please do as follows.
Step 1. Create a worksheet with headers showing below
In a worksheet, create column headers consecutively as below screenshot shows. And type your date of birthday into the cell A2 under the Date of birthday header.
Step 2. Get today’s date
Now we need to get Today’s date with formula. Select cell B2, enter the below formula into it, and press Enter ley.
=TODAY()
Then you get the Date of today in the cell B2.
Step 3. Get the date of next birthday
Select cell C2, copy or enter the below formula into it, and press Enter key,
=DATE(YEAR(A2)+DATEDIF(A2,B2,"y")+1,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))
Step 4. Get the remaining days until next birthday
Select cell D2, enter the below formula into it, then press Enter key.
=DATEDIF(B2,C2,"d")
Then you will get the remaining days until next birthday in cell D2.
Note: Besides the above formulas, here also has one formula can do you a favor, please enter your birth date into a blank cell, A1 for example, and then type following formula: =IF(A1,DATE(YEAR(A1)+DATEDIF(A1+1,TODAY(),"y")+1,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1))-TODAY(),""), and then press Enter key to get the remaining days until next birthday.
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