How to find the number of days between two given dates in python

In this example we look at how you can get the difference between two dates in days.

There are a couple of ways of doing this but by far the simplest way of doing this is by using the datetime module.

The process to find the difference between two dates is that we input the two dates with a date type and then subtract them, this provides us the number of days between the two dates.

Example

# find number of days between two given dates
from datetime import date
 
def diffdays(date1, date2):
    return (date2-date1).days
     
# 2 dates
date1 = date(2020, 12, 25)
date2 = date(2022, 4, 10)

#print the diff
print(diffdays(date1, date2), "days")

Lets try this example out

>>> %Run diffdays1.py
471 days

Link

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