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WORKDAY Function

The WORKDAY function is one of the date and time functions. It is used to return the date which comes the indicated number of days (day-offset) before or after the specified start date excluding weekends and dates considered as holidays.

Syntax

WORKDAY(start_date, days, [holidays])

The WORKDAY function has the following arguments:

Argument Description
start_date The first date of the period entered using the DATE function or other date and time function.
days A number of nonweekend before or after start_date. If the days has the negative sign, the function will return the date which comes before the specified start_date. If the days has the positive sign, the function will return the date which follows after the specified start_date.
holidays An optional argument that specifies which dates besides weekends are nonworking. You can enter them using the DATE function or other date and time function or specify a reference to a range of cells containing dates.

Notes

How to apply the WORKDAY function.

Examples

The figure below displays the result returned by the WORKDAY function.

WORKDAY Function

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