Excel VBA Weekday Function

Excel VBA Weekday Function: The TimeValue function in VBA returns an integer (1 to 7), signifying the day of the week for the specified date.

Syntax

Weekday (Date, [FirstDayOfWeek])

Parameter

Date (required) – This parameter represents a valid String interpretation of time.

FirstDayOfWeek (optional) – This parameter specifies the weekday that should be used as the first day of the week. The default value is set to vbUseSystemDayOfWeek.

It can take the following values:

• vbUseSystemDayOfWeek - The first day of the week is as specified in your system settings
• vbSunday – Sunday
• vbMonday – Monday
• vbTuesday – Tuesday
• vbWednesday – Wednesday
• vbThursday – Thursday
• vbFriday – Friday
• vbSaturday – Saturday

Return

This function returns an integer (1 to 7), signifying the day of the week for the specified date.

Example 1

Sub WeekdayFunction_Example1()
 'It will return the weekday for the given date
 Dim wekday_val As Integer
 wekday_val = weekday(#2/11/2020#)
 ' The variable wekday_val now equals 03.
 Cells(1, 1).Value = wekday_val
 End Sub 

Output

3

Example 2

Sub WeekdayFunction_Example2()
 'It will return the weekday for the given date
 Dim wekday_val As Integer
 'the week will start with Monday
 wekday_val = weekday(#2/11/2020#, vbMonday)
 ' The variable wekday_val now equals 02.
 Cells(1, 1).Value = wekday_val
 End Sub 

Output

2

Example 3

Sub WeekdayFunction_Example3()
 'It will return the weekday for the given date
 Dim wekday_val As Integer
 'the week will start with Thursday
 wekday_val = weekday(#12/31/2020#, vbThursday)
 ' The variable wekday_val now equals 1.
 Cells(1, 1).Value = wekday_val
 End Sub 

Output

1

Example 4

Sub WeekdayFunction_Example4()
 ' It will return the weekday for the date
 Dim wekday_val As String
 'will returns today's weekday
 wekday_val = WeekdayName(weekday(Now()))
 ' The variable wekday_val will return the string "Tuesday".
 Cells(1, 1).Value = wekday_val
 End Sub 

Output

Tuesday