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Return Date of the First, or nth Day of Month

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See Also: Determine nth Weekday of a Specified Date || Return Last Chosen Weekday of Given Month . Lots More Custom Excel Functions

The Custom Function below can be used to return the date of the nth specified day of any given month.

It can be used in any cell like;

=nthDayOfMonth("sun","11/11/2005",2)

Where "Sun" is the day we need to return the date of the 2nd occurrence of Sunday in the Month November.

Syntax

=nthDayOfMonth(Which_Day,Which_Date,Occurence)

Which_Day is a text abbreviation on any day, e.g. "Sat"

Which_Date is a text representation of any valid date, e.g. "10-Oct-2005", "10-10-2005" etc

Occurence is the occurrence of Which_Day

To be able to use this custom function in a Workbook, you must first place the code below into a standard module.

1. Open the Workbook.
2. Go to Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor (Alt+F11).
3. Then to Insert>Module.
4. Paste in the code.
5. Click the top right X to return to Excel.

'The Code

Function NthDayOfMonth(Which_Day As String, Which_Date As String, Occurence As Byte) As Date
Dim i As Integer
Dim iDay As Integer
Dim iDaysInMonth As Integer
Dim FullDateNew As Date
Dim lCount As Long

Which_Date = CDate(Which_Date)
 
        Select Case UCase(Which_Day)
            Case "SUN"
                iDay = 1
            Case "MON"
                iDay = 2
            Case "TUE"
                iDay = 3
            Case "WED"
                iDay = 4
            Case "THU"
                iDay = 5
            Case "FRI"
                iDay = 6
            Case "SAT"
                iDay = 7
            End Select
 
      
    FullDateNew = DateSerial(Year(Which_Date), Month(Which_Date), 1)
   
    iDaysInMonth = Day(DateAdd("d", -1, DateSerial _
        (Year(Which_Date), Month(Which_Date) + 1, 1)))

    For i = 0 To iDaysInMonth
        If Weekday(FullDateNew + i) = iDay Then
            lCount = lCount + 1
        End If
        If lCount = Occurence Then
            NthDayOfMonth = FullDateNew + i
            Exit For
        End If
    Next i

End Function

Now simply enter the function into any cell as shown above.

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