{"id":9992,"date":"2019-08-29T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=9992"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:42:21","slug":"days-formula-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/days-formula-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"DAYS Formula in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What does it do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gets the number of days between two dates<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Formula breakdown:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>=DAYS(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">end_date<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">start_date<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What it means:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>=DAYS(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ending date<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">starting date<\/span>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Have two dates that you want to check what is the difference in days? No problem! Excel&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>DAYS Formula\u00a0<\/strong>will compute this easily for you!<\/p>\n<p>I explain how you can do this below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgqdQ5FDa7Q?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA.xlsx\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download excel workbook<i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">DAYS-FORMULA.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 1:<\/strong><\/span> We need to <strong>enter the <i>DAYS\u00a0<\/i>function in a blank cell<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">=DAYS(<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-01.jpg\" alt=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\" width=\"594\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-01.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-01-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The <b>DAYS\u00a0<\/b>arguments:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_57_1 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"scroll-to-download\">Free Practice Workbook<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/days-formula-in-excel\/#end_date\" title=\"end_date\">end_date<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/days-formula-in-excel\/#start_date\" title=\"start_date\">start_date<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"end_date\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>end_date<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is the ending date?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Select the cell containing the ending date:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">=DAYS(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">D9,<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-02.jpg\" alt=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\" width=\"595\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-02.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-02-300x83.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"start_date\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>start_date<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is the starting date?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Select the cell containing the starting date:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">=DAYS(D9,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">C9)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-03.jpg\" alt=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\" width=\"568\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-03.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-03-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apply the same formula to the rest of the cells by dragging the lower right corner downwards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-04.jpg\" alt=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\" width=\"570\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-04.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-04-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You now have your differences in days!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-05.jpg\" alt=\"DAYS Formula in Excel\" width=\"588\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-05.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAYS-FORMULA-05-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to Use the DAYS Formula in Excel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebooks.myexcelonline.com\/products\/101-most-popular-excel-formulas-e-book\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10741\" 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Gets the number of days between two dates Formula breakdown: =DAYS(end_date, start_date) What it means: =DAYS(ending date, starting date) Have two dates that you want to check what is the difference in days? No problem! Excel&#8217;s\u00a0DAYS Formula\u00a0will compute this easily for you! I explain how you can do this below: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[13,520,3],"tags":[68,521,142],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}