NETWORKDAYS

Returns the number of work days between two dates, excluding saturday and sunday.

Syntax

NETWORKDAYS(start_date, end_date, [holidays])

Arguments

Argument	Description	Required
start_date	The start date of the period.	Required
end_date	The end date of the period.	Required
holidays	List of holidays that should be excluded from the working days.	Optional

Examples

Work days between two dates

Work days excluding holidays

Business days in a week

Related Functions

Other Date/Time functions:

• DATE - Constructs a date from year, month, and day values.
• DATEDIF - Calculates the number of days, months, or years between two dates
• DATEONLY - Extracts the date component from a datetime value, removing the time portion. The result is in workbook time zone.
• DAY - Returns the day of the month from a date value.
• DAYOFWEEK - Returns the day of the week as a text string
• DAYS - Returns the number of days between two dates
• EDATE - Returns a date on the same day of the month, n months in the past or future.
• EOMONTH - Returns last day of a month as a serial number after adding a specified number of months before or after another date.
• HOUR - Returns the hour component of a specific time as a number between 0-23.
• ISOWEEKNUM - Returns the ISO-8601 week number (1–53) of the year for a given date.
• MINUTE - Returns the minutes of a time value
• MONTH - Returns the month from a date value (1-12).
• NOW - Returns the current date and time as a date value in UTC.
• SECOND - Returns the seconds of a time value
• TIME - Returns the created time with individual hour, minute and second components.
• TIMEVALUE - Returns the decimal number of the time represented by a string. The decimal number is a value ranging from 0 (inclusive) to 1 (exclusive).
• TODAY - Returns the current date as a date value in UTC with time stripped.
• WEEKDAY - Returns the number that corresponds to the week of provided date.
• WEEKNUM - Returns the week number of a specific date
• WORKDAY - Returns the date that is the specified number of working days before or after the start date.
• YEAR - Returns the year from a date value.
• YEARFRAC - Calculates the fraction of the year represented by the number of whole days between two dates

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