Excel Formula: Get Percentage of Year Completed or Remained

Combine the function YEARFRAC together with YEAR and DATE functions in Excel can calculate the completed or remaining time of year in a percentage value based on the given date.

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Year Completed

Generic formula:

Syntaxt and Arguments

Return Value

This formula returns to a decimal value. For getting a percentage value, please format the result as percentage.

How this formula works

Let’s say to get the percentage of the year completed based on the date in B3, please use the formula as this:

Press Enter key to get a decimal value.

Then keep the result highlighted, click Home tab and go to click the Percent Style icon in the Number group for formatting the result as percentage.

Explanation

YEAR function: the YAER function is used to get the year of the given date and display the result in a serial number format.
Here the formula YEAR(B3) returns 2021, which is the year of the given date.

DATE function: the DATE function gets the date displayed as mm/dd/yyyy format based on the given year, month and day.

YEARFRAC function: calculates the difference between two dates and gets the fractional year in a decimal value.

In this formula YEARFRAC(DATE(YEAR(B3),1,1),B3), it gets the fractional year in a decimal value between the first day of the year and the given date.

=YEARFRAC(DATE(YEAR(B3),1,1),B3)
=YEARFRAC(1/1/2021,6/20/2021)
=0.469444

Year Remained

Generic Formula

Take the above given date as an example, please use the below formula:

Press Enter key to get a decimal value.

Then keep the result highlighted, click Home tab and go to click the Percent Style icon in the Number group for formatting the result as percentage.

Explanation

The whole year can be seen as the integer 1, to minus the completed time of year, the remained time of year is figured out.

Relative Formulas

• Get date from given date month year
  The DATE function can be used to get a standard date based on the given year, month and day in Excel.
• Find earliest or latest date in each group
  This article provides the formulas to find the earlist and lates dates in the same group in Excel.
• Get day name from given date
  This tutorial talks about how to use formula to get the day name such as Monday,Tuesday based on the given date.
• Create weekly date range
  In this tutorial, it provides a formula to quickly get the weekly date range in Excel.

Relative Functions

• Excel DATE Function
  Create date with year, month and day
• Excel YEAR Function
  Returns the year of date in 4-digit serial number format
• Excel MONTH Function
  The MONTH is used to get the month as integer number (1 to 12) from date
• Excel DAY Function
  DAY function gets the day as a number (1 to 31) from a date
• Excel NOW Function
  Get the current time and date

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