Excel Formula: Get Nth Day of Week in Month By Given Date
As we known, we can use a formula to get the weekday of a given date in Excel, but most of you do not know there is also a formula can get the nth weekday of a given date.
If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.
Generic formula:
| date-DAY(date)+1+n*7-WEEKDAY(date-DAY(date)+8-dow) |
Syntaxt and Arguments
| Date: the date that you want to find the nth weekday based on. |
| N: An integer that indicates the nth weekday you want to find based on the given date. For instance, you want to find the second specific weekday, use number 2 in the formula. |
| Dow: The integer 1-7 indicates the weekday that you want to find from the given date. |
| Dow; | Weekday |
| 1 | Sunday |
| 2 | Monday |
| 3 | Tuesday |
| 4 | Wednesday |
| 5 | Thursday |
| 6 | Friday |
| 7 | Saturday |
Take Attention
Usually, the argument N is in the scale of the integer 1-4, if you want to find the fifth specific weekday, supposing the 5th Tuesday of 1/1/2021, it will get the first Tuesday of the next month, 2/2/2021.
Return Value
The formula returns a serial number, you need to format it as date format.
How the formula works
A table B3:D5, column B3:B4 lists the date that you used to find the weekday based on, C3:C5 contains the numbers that indicate the specific weekday you want to get, D3:D5 tell you the nth weekday you need to find. Please use the formula in cell F3 as below:
| =B3-DAY(B3)+1+D3*7-WEEKDAY(B3-DAY(B3)+8-C3) |
Press Enter key to get the first serial number result, then drag auto fill handle down to cell F5.
Then keep the results selected, go to Home tab, and choose the Short Date or Long Date from the drop-down list of Number Format.
Explanation
WEEKDAY function: returns an integer number from 1 to 7 to represent the day of the week for a given date in Excel.
DAY function: gets the day as a number (1 to 31) from a date.
=B3-DAY(B3)+1+D3*7-WEEKDAY(B3-DAY(B3)+8-C3)
=B3-DAY(B3)+1+D3*7-WEEKDAY(B3-3+8-1)
=B3-DAY(B3)+1+D3*7-WEEKDAY(1/7/2021)
=B3-DAY(B3)+1+D3*7-5
=1/3/2021-3+1+7-5
=1/3/2021
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