Excel Formula: Check If Date Is Workday
In Excel, to check a date if is a workday (excluding general weekends and holidays), you can use the WORKDAY function.
If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.
Generic formula:
| WORKDAY(date-1,1,holidays)=date |
Syntaxt and Arguments
| Date:the date you want to check if is a workday. |
Return Value
This formula returns to a logical value, TRUE or FALEs. When the formula returns to TRUE, the date is a workday, otherwise, the date is not a workday when the formula returns to FALSE.
How this formula works
In cells E3:E7 list the holidays, now to check the dates in list B3:B7 if are workdays, please use below formula:
| =WORKDAY(B3-1,1,$E$3:$E$7)=B3 |
Press Enter key to get the first checking result, and then drag the autofill handle down to cell B7.
Explanation
WORKDAY function: is used to add a specified number of workdays to a started date and return the future or past date in a serial number format.
=WORKDAY(B3-1,1,$E$3:$E$7)
=WORKDAY("4/11/2020",1, $E$3:$E$7)
=4/13/2020
Then
=4/13/2020=B3
=4/13/2020=/12/2020
=FALSE
Note
With the WORKDAY function, in recons the weekends are Saturday and Sunday, if you have your own custom weekend, you can use the WORKDAY.INTL function.
Supposing the weekends are Monday and Tuesday, please use the formula as:
=WORKDAY.INTL(B3-1,1,3,$E$3:$E$7)=B3
Weekend number
| Number | Weekend Days |
| 1(default) | Saturday and Sunday |
| 2 | Sunday and Monday |
| 3 | Monday and Tuesday |
| 4 | Tuesday and Wednesday |
| 5 | Wednesday and Thursday |
| 6 | Thursday and Friday |
| 7 | Friday and Saturday |
| 11 | Sunday only |
| 12 | Monday only |
| 13 | Tuesday only |
| 14 | Wednesday only |
| 15 | Thursday only |
| 16 | Friday only |
| 17 | Saturday only |
Relative Formulas
- Count Weekdays only Between Two Dates
This tutorial provides formulas to count the days excluding weekends and holidays between two dates - Count Specific Weekday Between Two Dates
This tutorial provides the formula to count a specific weekday between two given dates in Excel. - Count Days From Today
This tutorial provides the best formula to calculate the difference between a date and today in Excel. - Convert Weekday in A Date Range
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Relative Functions
- Excel WEEKNUM Function
Returns the week number of the given date in a year - Excel WORKDAY Function
Adds workdays to the given start date and returns a workday - 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
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