Excel PivotTable - Calculate the number of days of each week for every month of the year

Posted on: 05/05/2022

If you want to calculate how many days are in each month for a year, it is easy to do with a PivotTable in Excel. I want to know how Sundays through Saturdays there are for each month of the year.

**Excel PivotTable - Show days per month for the year**

We should end up with 365 days unless the year is a leap year. We are counting weekdays and weekends. This video will show the functions WEEKDAY, MONTH, TEXT, and FORMULATEXT. We will create a PivotTable and Sort by Month in a PivotTable.

YouTube Video

Video Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:53 Preparing the worksheet
01:51 GO TO
02:27 SELECT GO TO
02:45 FILL DOWN
03:53 WEEKDAY
05:07 Long date
05:51 MONTH
06:45 Number to day of week
08:15 Number to month
09:11 Create PivotTable
10:34 Sort by month
11:30 Closing remarks

WEEKDAY Function

The WEEKDAY Function return the number of the day. Sunday is 1, Monday is 2, etc.

TEXT Function

The TEXT function in Excel has two arguments. Both are required. The TEXT function lets you change the way dates or numbers appear. In our example, we wanted to see the day of the week.

One d would be a 1 for January 1, 2024
Two d's would be 01 for January 1, 2024.
Three d's would be Mon for January 1, 2024 since it was a Monday.
Four d's would be Monday for January 1, 2024.

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