Calculate the number of business days between two

Question

In C#, how can I calculate the number of business (or weekdays) days between two dates?

Answer 1

Well this has been beaten to death. :) However I'm still going to provide another answer because I needed something a bit different. This solution is different in that it returns a Business TimeSpan between the start and end, and you can set the business hours of the day, and add holidays. So you can use it to calculate if it happens within a day, across days, over weekends, and even holidays. And you can get just the business days or not by just getting what you need from the returned TimeSpan object. And the way it uses lists of days, you can see how very easy it would be to add the list of non-work days if it's not the typical Sat and Sun. And I tested for a year, and it seems super fast.

I just hope the pasting of the code is accurate. But I know it works.

public static TimeSpan GetBusinessTimespanBetween(
    DateTime start, DateTime end,
    TimeSpan workdayStartTime, TimeSpan workdayEndTime,
    List<DateTime> holidays = null)
{
    if (end < start)
        throw new ArgumentException("start datetime must be before end datetime.");

    // Just create an empty list for easier coding.
    if (holidays == null) holidays = new List<DateTime>();

    if (holidays.Where(x => x.TimeOfDay.Ticks > 0).Any())
        throw new ArgumentException("holidays can not have a TimeOfDay, only the Date.");

    var nonWorkDays = new List<DayOfWeek>() { DayOfWeek.Saturday, DayOfWeek.Sunday };

    var startTime = start.TimeOfDay;

    // If the start time is before the starting hours, set it to the starting hour.
    if (startTime < workdayStartTime) startTime = workdayStartTime;

    var timeBeforeEndOfWorkDay = workdayEndTime - startTime;

    // If it's after the end of the day, then this time lapse doesn't count.
    if (timeBeforeEndOfWorkDay.TotalSeconds < 0) timeBeforeEndOfWorkDay = new TimeSpan();
    // If start is during a non work day, it doesn't count.
    if (nonWorkDays.Contains(start.DayOfWeek)) timeBeforeEndOfWorkDay = new TimeSpan();
    else if (holidays.Contains(start.Date)) timeBeforeEndOfWorkDay = new TimeSpan();

    var endTime = end.TimeOfDay;

    // If the end time is after the ending hours, set it to the ending hour.
    if (endTime > workdayEndTime) endTime = workdayEndTime;

    var timeAfterStartOfWorkDay = endTime - workdayStartTime;

    // If it's before the start of the day, then this time lapse doesn't count.
    if (timeAfterStartOfWorkDay.TotalSeconds < 0) timeAfterStartOfWorkDay = new TimeSpan();
    // If end is during a non work day, it doesn't count.
    if (nonWorkDays.Contains(end.DayOfWeek)) timeAfterStartOfWorkDay = new TimeSpan();
    else if (holidays.Contains(end.Date)) timeAfterStartOfWorkDay = new TimeSpan();

    // Easy scenario if the times are during the day day.
    if (start.Date.CompareTo(end.Date) == 0)
    {
        if (nonWorkDays.Contains(start.DayOfWeek)) return new TimeSpan();
        else if (holidays.Contains(start.Date)) return new TimeSpan();
        return endTime - startTime;
    }
    else
    {
        var timeBetween = end - start;
        var daysBetween = (int)Math.Floor(timeBetween.TotalDays);
        var dailyWorkSeconds = (int)Math.Floor((workdayEndTime - workdayStartTime).TotalSeconds);

        var businessDaysBetween = 0;

        // Now the fun begins with calculating the actual Business days.
        if (daysBetween > 0)
        {
            var nextStartDay = start.AddDays(1).Date;
            var dayBeforeEnd = end.AddDays(-1).Date;
            for (DateTime d = nextStartDay; d <= dayBeforeEnd; d = d.AddDays(1))
            {
                if (nonWorkDays.Contains(d.DayOfWeek)) continue;
                else if (holidays.Contains(d.Date)) continue;
                businessDaysBetween++;
            }
        }

        var dailyWorkSecondsToAdd = dailyWorkSeconds * businessDaysBetween;

        var output = timeBeforeEndOfWorkDay + timeAfterStartOfWorkDay;
        output = output + new TimeSpan(0, 0, dailyWorkSecondsToAdd);

        return output;
    }
}

And here is test code: Note that you just have to put this function in a class called DateHelper for the test code to work.

[TestMethod]
public void TestGetBusinessTimespanBetween()
{
    var workdayStart = new TimeSpan(8, 0, 0);
    var workdayEnd = new TimeSpan(17, 0, 0);

    var holidays = new List<DateTime>()
    {
        new DateTime(2018, 1, 15), // a Monday
        new DateTime(2018, 2, 15) // a Thursday
    };

    var testdata = new[]
    {
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 0,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 9, 50, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 9, 50, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 10,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 9, 50, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 10, 0, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 5,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 7, 50, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 8, 5, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 5,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 16, 55, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 17, 5, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 15,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 16, 50, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 8, 5, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 10,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 16, 50, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 7, 55, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 5,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 17, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 8, 5, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 0,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 17, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 7, 5, 0)
        },
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 545,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Spanning multiple weekdays
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 835,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 19, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 21, 8, 5, 0)
        },
        // Spanning multiple weekdays
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 1375,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 18, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 21, 8, 5, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Thursday to a Tuesday, 5 mins short of complete day.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 1615,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 25, 12, 5, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Thursday to a Tuesday, 5 mins beyond complete day.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 1625,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 20, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 25, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Friday to a Monday, 5 mins beyond complete day.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 545,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 21, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 24, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Friday to a Monday, 5 mins short complete day.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 535,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 21, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 24, 12, 5, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Saturday to a Monday, 5 mins short complete day.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 245,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 22, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 24, 12, 5, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Saturday to a Sunday, 5 mins beyond complete day.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 0,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 22, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 23, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Times within the same Saturday.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 0,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 22, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 23, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Spanning from a Saturday to the Sunday next week.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 2700,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 22, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2016, 10, 30, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Spanning a year.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 143355,
            start = new DateTime(2016, 10, 22, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2017, 10, 30, 12, 15, 0)
        },
        // Spanning a year with 2 holidays.
        new
        {
            expectedMinutes = 142815,
            start = new DateTime(2017, 10, 22, 12, 10, 0),
            end = new DateTime(2018, 10, 30, 12, 15, 0)
        },
    };

    foreach (var item in testdata)
    {
        Assert.AreEqual(item.expectedMinutes,
            DateHelper.GetBusinessTimespanBetween(
                item.start, item.end,
                workdayStart, workdayEnd,
                holidays)
                .TotalMinutes);
    }
}

Answer 2

This is a generic solution.

startdayvalue is day number of start date.

weekendday_1 is day numner of week end.

day number - MON - 1, TUE - 2, ... SAT - 6, SUN -7.

difference is difference between two dates..

Example : Start Date : 4 April, 2013, End Date : 14 April, 2013

Difference : 10, startdayvalue : 4, weekendday_1 : 7 (if SUNDAY is a weekend for you.)

This will give you number of holidays.

No of business day = (Difference + 1) - holiday1

    if (startdayvalue > weekendday_1)
    {

        if (difference > ((7 - startdayvalue) + weekendday_1))
        {
            holiday1 = (difference - ((7 - startdayvalue) + weekendday_1)) / 7;
            holiday1 = holiday1 + 1;
        }
        else
        {
            holiday1 = 0;
        }
    }
    else if (startdayvalue < weekendday_1)
    {

        if (difference > (weekendday_1 - startdayvalue))
        {
            holiday1 = (difference - (weekendday_1 - startdayvalue)) / 7;
            holiday1 = holiday1 + 1;
        }
        else if (difference == (weekendday_1 - startdayvalue))
        {
            holiday1 = 1;
        }
        else
        {
            holiday1 = 0;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        holiday1 = difference / 7;
        holiday1 = holiday1 + 1;
    }

Answer 3

I searched a lot for a, easy to digest, algorithm to calculate the working days between 2 dates, and also to exclude the national holidays, and finally I decide to go with this approach:

public static int NumberOfWorkingDaysBetween2Dates(DateTime start,DateTime due,IEnumerable<DateTime> holidays)
        {
            var dic = new Dictionary<DateTime, DayOfWeek>();
            var totalDays = (due - start).Days;
            for (int i = 0; i < totalDays + 1; i++)
            {
                if (!holidays.Any(x => x == start.AddDays(i)))
                    dic.Add(start.AddDays(i), start.AddDays(i).DayOfWeek);
            }

            return dic.Where(x => x.Value != DayOfWeek.Saturday && x.Value != DayOfWeek.Sunday).Count();
        } 

Basically I wanted to go with each date and evaluate my conditions:

1. Is not Saturday
2. Is not Sunday
3. Is not national holiday

but also I wanted to avoid iterating dates.

By running and measuring the time need it to evaluate 1 full year, I go the following result:

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var start = new DateTime(2017, 1, 1);
            var due = new DateTime(2017, 12, 31);

            var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            var days = NumberOfWorkingDaysBetween2Dates(start, due,NationalHolidays());
            sw.Stop();

            Console.WriteLine($"Total working days = {days} --- time: {sw.Elapsed}");
            Console.ReadLine();

            // result is:
           // Total working days = 249-- - time: 00:00:00.0269087
        }

Answer 4

I know this question is already solved, but I thought I could provide a more straightforward-looking answer that may help other visitors in the future.

Here's my take at it:

public int GetWorkingDays(DateTime from, DateTime to)
{
    var dayDifference = (int)to.Subtract(from).TotalDays;
    return Enumerable
        .Range(1, dayDifference)
        .Select(x => from.AddDays(x))
        .Count(x => x.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday && x.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Sunday);
}

This was my original submission:

public int GetWorkingDays(DateTime from, DateTime to)
{
    var totalDays = 0;
    for (var date = from; date < to; date = date.AddDays(1))
    {
        if (date.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday
            && date.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Sunday)
            totalDays++;
    }

    return totalDays;
}

Answer 5

I was having trouble finding a solid TSQL version of this code. Below is essentially a conversion of the C# code here with addition of the Holiday table which should be used to pre-calculate holidays.

CREATE TABLE dbo.Holiday
(
    HolidayDt       DATE NOT NULL,
    Name            NVARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    IsWeekday       BIT NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT PK_Holiday PRIMARY KEY (HolidayDt)
)
GO
CREATE INDEX IDX_Holiday ON Holiday (HolidayDt, IsWeekday)

GO

CREATE function dbo.GetBusinessDays
(
     @FirstDay  datetime,
     @LastDay   datetime
) 
RETURNS INT
 AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @BusinessDays INT, @FullWeekCount INT 
    SELECT  @FirstDay = CONVERT(DATETIME,CONVERT(DATE,@FirstDay))
        ,   @LastDay = CONVERT(DATETIME,CONVERT(DATE,@LastDay))

    IF @FirstDay > @LastDay
        RETURN NULL;

    SELECT @BusinessDays = DATEDIFF(DAY, @FirstDay, @LastDay) + 1 
    SELECT @FullWeekCount = @BusinessDays / 7;

    -- find out if there are weekends during the time exceedng the full weeks
    IF @BusinessDays > (@FullWeekCount * 7)
    BEGIN
    -- we are here to find out if there is a 1-day or 2-days weekend
    -- in the time interval remaining after subtracting the complete weeks
        DECLARE @firstDayOfWeek INT, @lastDayOfWeek INT;
        SELECT @firstDayOfWeek = DATEPART(DW, @FirstDay), @lastDayOfWeek = DATEPART(DW, @LastDay);

        IF @lastDayOfWeek < @firstDayOfWeek
                SELECT @lastDayOfWeek = @lastDayOfWeek + 7;

        IF @firstDayOfWeek <= 6 
            BEGIN
                IF (@lastDayOfWeek >= 7) --Both Saturday and Sunday are in the remaining time interval
                    BEGIN 
                        SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - 2
                    END
                ELSE IF @lastDayOfWeek>=6 --Only Saturday is in the remaining time interval
                    BEGIN
                        SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - 1
                    END

            END
        ELSE IF @firstDayOfWeek <= 7 AND @lastDayOfWeek >=7 -- Only Sunday is in the remaining time interval
        BEGIN 
            SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - 1
        END
    END

    -- subtract the weekends during the full weeks in the interval
    DECLARE @Holidays INT;
    SELECT  @Holidays = COUNT(*) 
    FROM    Holiday 
    WHERE   HolidayDt BETWEEN @FirstDay AND @LastDay 
    AND     IsWeekday = CAST(1 AS BIT)

    SELECT @BusinessDays = @BusinessDays - (@FullWeekCount + @FullWeekCount) -- - @Holidays

    RETURN @BusinessDays
END

Answer 6

I believe this could be a simpler way:

    public int BusinessDaysUntil(DateTime start, DateTime end, params DateTime[] bankHolidays)
    {
        int tld = (int)((end - start).TotalDays) + 1; //including end day
        int not_buss_day = 2 * (tld / 7); //Saturday and Sunday
        int rest = tld % 7; //rest.

        if (rest > 0)
        {
            int tmp = (int)start.DayOfWeek - 1 + rest;
            if (tmp == 6 || start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday) not_buss_day++; else if (tmp > 6) not_buss_day += 2;
        }

        foreach (DateTime bankHoliday in bankHolidays)
        {
            DateTime bh = bankHoliday.Date;
            if (!(bh.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday || bh.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday) && (start <= bh && bh <= end))
            {
                not_buss_day++;
            }
        }
        return tld - not_buss_day;
    }