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How to calculate net work hours between two dates excluding weekends or holidays in Excel?

In many companies, staff are paid by working hours. To calculate the net work hours in a day is easy, but how about calculating net hours in a date range? For that, this article, introduces the formulas on calculating the net work hours between two dates excluding weekends and holidays in Excel.

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Calculate working hours exclude weekends/holidays


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In this part, I introduce the formula to calculate workday between two date times excluding weekends.

1. Select two cells which you will input the start date time and end date time, and right click to select Format Cells form the context menu. See screenshot:
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2. In the Format Cells dialog, click Number tab, and select Custom form the Category list, and enter m/d/yyyy h:mm into the Type textbox in right section. See screenshot:
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3. Click OK. And enter the start date time and end date time into the two cells separately. See screenshot:
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4. In the cell next to these two cells, C13, for instance, enter this formula =NETWORKDAYS(A13,B13)-1-MOD(A13,1)+MOD(B13,1), and press Enter key, and you will get the result with custom format, select the result cell, and click Home tab, and go to the Number Format list to select General to format it as the correct format. See screenshot:
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If you want to calculate the net working hours excluding weekends or holidays, you can do as bellow:

Calculate net working hours exclude weekends

1. Select two cells and format them as custom format m/d/yyyy h:mm, and enter the start date time and end date time. See screenshot:
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2. And in the next to cell, C2 for instance, enter this formula,
=(NETWORKDAYS(A2,B2)-1)*("17:30"-"8:30")+IF(NETWORKDAYS(B2,B2),MEDIAN(MOD(B2,1),"17:30","8:30"),"17:30")-MEDIAN(NETWORKDAYS(A2,A2)*MOD(A2,1),"17:30","8:30"),
press Enter key, then you get a number string. See screenshot:
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3. Right click at the number string, and click Format Cells from context menu, and in Format Cells dialog, select Custom form Category list under Number tab, and enter this [h]:mm into Type textbox. See screenshot:
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4. Click OK. Now the net working hours between two dates excluding weekends are counted.
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Tip: In the formula, A2 is the start date time, B2 is the end date time, 8:30 and 17:30 are the general start time and end time in each day, you can change them as you need.

Calculate net working hours excluding weekend and holidays

1. As the same as above, select two cells and format them as custom format m/d/yyyy h:mm, and enter the start date time and end date time.
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2. Select a blank cell, and enter the holiday date into it, here I have 3 holidays and I type them separately in H1:H3. See screenshot:
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3. Select a blank cell which will place the counted result, C2 for instance,
=(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(A2,B2,11,H$1:H$3)-1)*("17:30"-"8:30")+IF(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(B2,B2,11,H$1:H$3),MEDIAN(MOD(B2,1),"8:30","17:30"),"17:30")-MEDIAN(NETWORKDAYS.INTL(A2,A2,11,H$1:H$3)*MOD(A2,1),"8:30","17:30"),
and press Enter key, you will get a number string, and format it as custom format [h]:mm. See screenshot:
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Tip: In the formula, A2 is the start date time, B2 is the end date time, 8:30 and 17:30 are the general start time and end time in each day, H1:H3 is the holiday cells, you can change them as you need.

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This formula is very good. Does anyone know how I can convert this to SQL query?
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it works
how to add lunch break?
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This is very good, what if the shift time spans over 2 days (start time 17:00 to 02:00 next day)
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Hi
Have recieved any update regarding for your questions because I am also finding for same
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Can anyone help me how the formula would be if the work hours are from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am (20:00 to 5:00)?
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Tried the same formula but it's showing negative values.
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Anyone need this formula but for graveyard or night shift schedule?
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Why is the Median function used in this formula? what is calculating
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Hey, thanks for this formula.

But can we apply this formula for same dates.

For ex,
if start date and time is
" 15/11/20 11:10AM" and end date and time is "15 /11/20 11:25AM"
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Hi, Pooja, use formula (M1 is the start time,M2 is the end time)
=(NETWORKDAYS(M1,M2)-1)*("17:30"-"8:30")+IF(NETWORKDAYS(M2,M2),MEDIAN(MOD(M2,1),"17:30","8:30"),"17:30")-MEDIAN(NETWORKDAYS(M1,M1)*MOD(M1,1),"17:30","8:30")
and format the result cell as time.
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Hi, Sunny, thank you so much, this works perfectly now.
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Hi the formula below works well with me to calculate the tame a task is taking from start to finish excluding a standard weekends of Saturday and Sunday off.
=(NETWORKDAYS(I7,J7)-1)*("18:00"-"8:30")+IF(NETWORKDAYS(J7,J7),MEDIAN(MOD(J7,1),"18:00","8:30"),"18:00")-MEDIAN(NETWORKDAYS(I7,I7)*MOD(I7,1),"18:00","8:30")

However, on Friday we would like to consider 3 working hours only (9:00-12:00), how can I insert it within the formula please? any idea?
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Hi, Pierre, I have modified the formula:
=((NETWORKDAYS(A1,B1)-1)*("18:00"-"8:30")+IF(NETWORKDAYS(B1,B1),MEDIAN(MOD(B1,1),"18:00","8:30"),"18:00")-MEDIAN(NETWORKDAYS(A1,A1)*MOD(A1,1),"18:00","8:30"))-INT((WEEKDAY($A$1- 6)-$A$1+$B1)/7)*(("18:00"-"8:30")-("12:00"-"9:00"))
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Thank you Sunny, but honestly the updated formula did not give the results properly, not sure if it requires additional adjustment:
Monday - Thursday 8:30-18:00 (working hours)
Friday 9:00-12:00 (working hours)
Saturday - Sunday Off
thank you
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Hi, Pierre, I have tested the formula, it works for me. In the formula:
A1 is the start datetime, B1 is the end datetime, and both of the datetime cells are formated as mm/dd/yy hh:mm, then the result you need to format it as time format: 37:30:55.
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hi sunny,

I have used the formulla and it is working well except for friday hald day calculation showing in negative hours. Kindly suggest

=((NETWORKDAYS(P9,R9,1)-1)*("15:00"-"07:00")+IF(NETWORKDAYS(R9,R9),MEDIAN(MOD(R9,1),"15:00","07:00"),"15:00")-MEDIAN(NETWORKDAYS(P9,P9)*MOD(P9,1),"15:00","07:00")-INT((WEEKDAY(P9-6)-P9+R9)/7)*(("15:00"-"7:00")-("11:30"-"7:00")))

Start time: 1/12/2024 11:51:02 AM
End Time: 1/12/2024 11:51:13 AM
Result: -3:30:00

Thanks
Nishanth
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Dear all, I would like to ask you for help, I tried this formula for counting working hours between days (without weekends and holidays), but I receive the #Value! error.I formatted the cells as well.
 Start date in A2:  24.11.2021 11:05  <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">   1.12.2021 11:05</span>Workday start in C2:    6:00Workday end  in D2:  18:00Holidays in E2 till E10:
1/1/21
4/2/21
4/5/21
5/1/21
5/13/21
5/24/21
10/3/21
12/25/21
12/26/21
    
I used the following formula:   <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">#Value! error, can you please advise?</span>
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Hello Sir,
My predecessor has set below formula.I am not getting  what is "Holidays[#All]", not getting where he has set this.
Please let me know.....


=ABS(IF([@Priority]<3,settings!$F$2-K3,(((NETWORKDAYS(K3,settings!$F$2,Holidays[#All]))*((settings!$B$3-settings!$B$2)*24)-IF(AND(NETWORKDAYS(K3,K3,settings!$D$2:settings!$D$33)>0,(K3-INT(K3))*24>(settings!$B$2-INT(settings!$B$2))*24,(K3-INT(K3))*24<(settings!$B$3-INT(settings!$B$3))*24),((K3-INT(K3))*24)-((settings!$B$2-INT(settings!$B$2))*24),0)-IF(AND(NETWORKDAYS(settings!$F$2,settings!$F$2,settings!$D$2:settings!$D$33)>0,(settings!$F$2-INT(settings!$F$2))*24<(settings!$B$3-INT(settings!$B$3))*24,(settings!$F$2-INT(settings!$F$2))*24>(settings!$B$2-INT(settings!$B$2))*24),((settings!$B$3-INT(settings!$B$3))*24)-((settings!$F$2-INT(settings!$F$2))*24),0)-IF(AND(NETWORKDAYS(K3,K3,settings!$D$2:settings!$D$33)>0,(K3-INT(K3))*24>(settings!$B$3-INT(settings!$B$3))*24),(settings!$B$3-settings!$B$2)*24,0)-IF(AND(NETWORKDAYS(settings!$F$2,settings!$F$2,settings!$D$2:settings!$D$33)>0,(settings!$F$2-INT(settings!$F$2))*24<(settings!$B$2-INT(settings!$B$2))*24),(settings!$B$3-settings!$B$2)*24,0))/24)))
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