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Excel Formula: Get Nth Day of Week in Month By Given Date

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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