Excel Formula: Calculate days remaining in year
This tutorial introduces the formula to calculate days remaining in the current year in Excel. If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet. 
Generic formula:
| DATE(YEAR(date),12,31)-date |
Arguments
| Date: the date you used to calculate the days remaining in the current year. |
Return value
This formula returns a value in date format. You need to format the result and display as a general number.
How this formula work
For instance, here is a list of date stored in cell B3:B5 needed to calculate the remaining days in the corresponding year, in cell C3, please use below formula:
| =DATE(YEAR(B3),12,31)-B3 |
Press Enter key to get the result in a date format.
Then format the result as general format by clicking Home > Number Format drop-down list and choosing General.
Then drag the auto fill handle to the cells you want to apply this formula if you need.
Explanation
YEAR function: The YEAR function gets the year of a date.
DATE function: DATE function creates a date with given year, month, and day.
Here the formula
=DATE(YEAR(B3),12,31)-B3
=DATE(2019,12,31)-B3
=12/31/2019-11/23/2019 (get the difference between two dates)
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Relative Functions
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