Is there a way to generate number of days in a month?

Question

The title kind of says it all but just to give you the use case, I have a spreadsheet where I track monthly advertisement revenue and want to end up with a daily revenue column.

Here's a simplified example of what I have today:

MONTH   | TOTAL REVENUE
-----------------------
2012-04 | $456.78
2012-03 | $345.67
2012-02 | $234.56
2012-01 | $123.45

Here's a simplified example of what I'd like:

MONTH   | TOTAL REVENUE | DAYS IN MONTH
---------------------------------------
2012-04 | $456.78       | 30
2012-03 | $345.67       | 31
2012-02 | $234.56       | 29
2012-01 | $123.45       | 31

Obviously I'd like this in the form of a formula so I don't need to do any kind of manual tweaking. Is there some kind of formula that can take in 2012-04 and spit out 30?

Answer 1

I use this formula:

=day(eomonth(today(),0))

You'll have to replace today() with a date or a cell containing a date in the month for which you want the total number of days.

Answer 2

I stumbled across the EOMONTH function which is exactly what I needed, I end up doing a bunch of substring stuff but it seems to work which is all that is important to me.

Here's an example that will get you the number of days in field A2 assuming it's in YYYY-MM format

=LEFT(RIGHT(EOMONTH(RIGHT(A2,2)&"/01/"&LEFT(A2,4),0),7),2)

Answer 3

Parsing a Date with Left and Right might be unreliable (for example, in case the data format changes).

You could simplify the formula by using the DAY function instead:

=DAY( EOMONTH(RIGHT(A2,2)&"/01/"&LEFT(A2,4),0) )

Also the way you compose the date inside the EOMONTH call could be replaced, using the DATE(<year>, <month>, <day>) function to make it a little more reliable.

So, the final formula would become:

=DAY( EOMONTH( DATE(LEFT(B51,4), RIGHT(B51,2), 1) ,0) )

Answer 4

Let's say that that you have a date in cell A1 with value

29 December 2015 

And you want to know how many days there are in the month of December in that year.

Use the "months" argument in the EOMONTH function to evaluate the number of days in the current month (using the value 0), and the number of days in the previous month (using the value -1). This will give you EOMONTH values for both December and November.

Then simply subtract the two values from one another

=EOMONTH(A1,0)-EOMONTH(A1,-1)

and voila! You get the number of days in December.

31

This formula will also work for calculating the days in February in both leap years and non-leap years.