Get day of the week in Pandas Python

Weekday_name is the inbuilt method for finding the day of the week in pandas python. Also dayofweek function in pandas is used for getting the day of the week in numbers. Lets see how to

• Get the Day of the week from date in English in pandas
• Get the day of the week in number (starting from Monday , Monday = 0 and Sunday =6)

Let’s see an example of each

First lets create the dataframe

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import datetime

date1 = pd.Series(pd.date_range('2012-1-1 12:00:00', periods=7, freq='M'))
df = pd.DataFrame(dict(date_given=date1))
print(df)

so the resultant dataframe will be

Get the Day of the week in English in pandas

Weekday_name function Gets the day of the week in English Starting from Monday till sunday.  Which is shown in below code

df['day_of_week'] = df['date_given'].dt.weekday_name
print(df)

so the resultant dataframe will be

Get the Day of the week in Numbers – pandas

dayofweek function Gets the day of the week in numbers  Starting from Monday (Monday =0, Tuesday=1, Wednesday=2,Thursday =3,  Friday=4 ,  Saturday =5, Sunday =6)

df['day_of_week_in_number'] = df['date_given'].dt.dayofweek
print(df)

so the resultant dataframe will be