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Complete List of Excel Date and Time Functions, References and Examples

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Before using the Date and Time Excel Functions, it is advised that you ensure you have a clear understanding of the way Excel stores Dates and Times

Here’s a full list of Built-In  Date and Time Excel Functions in Excel and their Descriptions below:

Click each of the function link to see detailed example.

Creating Dates & Times

DATE Returns a date, from a user-supplied year, month and day
TIME Returns a time, from a user-supplied hour, minute and second
DATEVALUE Converts a text string showing a date, to an integer that represents the date in Excel’s date-time code
TIMEVALUE Converts a text string showing a time, to a decimal that represents the time in Excel

Current Date & Time

NOW Returns the current date & time
TODAY Returns today’s date

Extracting The Components of a Time

HOUR Returns the hour part of a user-supplied time
MINUTE Returns the minute part of a user-supplied time
SECOND Returns the seconds part of a user-supplied time

Extracting The Components of a Date

DAY Returns the day (of the month) from a user-supplied date
MONTH Returns the month from a user-supplied date
YEAR Returns the year from a user-supplied date
WEEKNUM Returns an integer representing the week number (from 1 to 53) of the year from a user-supplied date
ISOWEEKNUM Returns the ISO week number of the year for a given date (New in Excel 2013)
WEEKDAY Returns an integer representing the day of the week for a supplied date

Performing Calculations with Dates

EDATE Returns a date that is the specified number of months before or after an initial supplied start date
EOMONTH Returns a date that is the last day of the month which is a specified number of months before or after an initial supplied start date
WORKDAY Returns a date that is a supplied number of working days (excluding weekends & holidays) ahead of a given start date
WORKDAY.INTL Returns a date that is a supplied number of working days (excluding weekends & holidays) ahead of a given start date, using supplied parameters to specify weekend days (New in Excel 2010)
DAYS Calculates the number of days between 2 dates (New in Excel 2013)
DAYS360 Calculates the number of days between 2 dates, based on a 360-day year (12 x 30 months)
NETWORKDAYS Returns the number of whole networkdays (excluding weekends & holidays), between two supplied dates
NETWORKDAYS.INTL Returns the number of whole networkdays (excluding weekends & holidays), between two supplied dates, using parameters to specify weekend days (New in Excel 2010)
YEARFRAC Calculates the fraction of the year represented by the number of whole days between two dates

Note: Excel stores dates as numbers

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