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» Calculating Number of Days, Weeks, Months and Years between Dates

CATEGORY: Excel Date & Time Formulas

VERSIONS: All Microsoft Excel Versions

Problem:

Calculating the difference between each pair of dates listed in columns
A & B.

Solution:

To calculate the difference in days, use the DATEDIF function as shown in the following formula:
=DATEDIF(A2,B2,"d")

To calculate the difference in weeks, use the INT function as shown in the following formula:
=INT((B2-A2)/7)

To calculate the difference in months, use the DATEDIF function as shown in the following formula:
=DATEDIF(A2,B2,"m")

To calculate the difference in years, use one of the following two solutions:
Use the DATEDIF function as shown in the following formula:
=DATEDIF(A2,B2,"y")

OR

Use the YEAR, MONTH, AND, and DAY functions as shown in the following formula:

=YEAR(B2)-YEAR(A2)-(MONTH(B2) To calculate the number of months over years, use the DATEDIF function as shown in the following formula:
=DATEDIF(A2,B2,"ym")

To calculate the number of days over years, use the DATEDIF function as shown in the following formula:
=DATEDIF(A2,B2,"yd")

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READER COMMENTS (view all comments)

Need date formula
Chuck Miller wrote on April 18, 2006 18:23 EST

I am looking for a date formula which will announce "Due to Expire" when a date is 2 months from expiration. Does anyone know of such a formula?

Excluding the weekend
Migdad wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

Dear,
how can I calculate the days between two dates (Excluding the weekends)
I am working in Saudi Arabia and the weekends over here are Thursday and Friday.

please send me the answer to Migdad@hotmail.com

abc
yogita wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

how can I calculate the days between two dates (Excluding the sunday only)?

Dates
Kumodi74 wrote on September 21, 2006 07:00 EST

I am looking for a fomula that will calculate the amount of days between 2 dates excluding weekends

Dates
Dee wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

I am looking for a fomula that will calculate the amount of days between 2 dates excluding weekends

Excluding the weekend
Not Reallyhere wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

You are a doofus, set your time to a realisic time zone.

counting days between two dates including both
DPS wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

I am looking for a formula to count all days between two dates including start and end date - currently one of the days is dropped when using the formula.

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