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How to count the days excluding Sundays between two dates in Excel?

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As below screenshot shown, you have two given dates, one is start date and the other is the end date, and the job is to count the days excluding Sundays between these two given dates, how can you quickly get it done in Excel?

A screenshot showing a dataset with two dates for calculating days excluding Sundays

Count days excluding Sundays with formula

Count a specific weekday between two dates with Kutools for Excel


Count days excluding Sundays with formula

Here I can introduce a formula for counting days excluding Sundays during a date range.

Select a blank cell, here is C2, and type this formula =B2-A2-INT((B2-A2-WEEKDAY(B2)+1)/7) into it, and then press Enter key, a date displayed.
A screenshot showing the formula to count days excluding Sundays in Excel

Then keep the result selected, click Home tab, and go to the Number group to format the cell to General or Number in the Number Format drop-down list.
A screenshot showing how to format the result to a number

In the formula, A2 is the start date, and B2 is the end date, you can change them to your need.


Count a specific weekday between two dates with Kutools for Excel

If you want to count days excluding a specific weekday, for instance, counting the number of Fridays between two dates, you can use Kutools for Excel’s Count the number of specific weekday function to get it done.

Kutools for Excel, equipped with AI 🤖, offers over 300 handy features to simplify your tasks.

After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Select a blank cell which you will place the counting result, and click Kutools > Formula Helper > Formula Helper. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing Kutools for Excel's Formula Helper

2. In the Formulas Helper dialog, check Filter checkbox, then in the beiside textbox, type "count", you can see all utilities names contain count have been list in the Choose a formula section, choose Count the number of specific weekday, then in the Arguments input section, click Range selection button to select the start date and end date into the Start Date and End Date textboxes, and type 6 into the textbox next to Weekday, if you want to count another weekday, you can refer to the Remark. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing the Formulas Helper dialog

3. Click Ok, and the number of Fridays has been counted.
A screenshot showing the result of counting Fridays between two dates using Kutools

If you want to count the weekdays or weekends only between two dates, you can apply Number of working days between two dates or Number of non-working days between two dates function in Formulas Helper dialog.

A screenshot showing the options in Kutools' Formulas Helper to count weekdays
A screenshot showing how to select non-working days between two dates

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