Find the date for the first Monday after a given a date

Question

Given a particular date, say 2011-07-02, how can I find the date of the next Monday (or any weekday day for that matter) after that date?

Answer 1

weekday = 0 ## Monday
dt = datetime.datetime.now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) ## or any specific date
days_remaining = (weekday - dt.weekday() - 1) % 7 + 1
next_dt = dt + datetime.timedelta(days_remaining)

Answer 2

This is example of calculations within ring mod 7.

import datetime


def next_day(given_date, weekday):
    day_shift = (weekday - given_date.weekday()) % 7
    return given_date + datetime.timedelta(days=day_shift)

now = datetime.date(2018, 4, 15) # sunday
names = ['monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday', 'thursday', 'friday',    
         'saturday', 'sunday']
for weekday in range(7):
    print(names[weekday], next_day(now, weekday))

will print:

monday 2018-04-16
tuesday 2018-04-17
wednesday 2018-04-18
thursday 2018-04-19
friday 2018-04-20
saturday 2018-04-21
sunday 2018-04-15

As you see it's correctly give you next monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday friday and saturday. And it also understood that 2018-04-15 is a sunday and returned current sunday instead of next one.

I'm sure you'll find this answer extremely helpful after 7 years ;-)

Answer 3

via list comprehension?

from datetime import *
[datetime.today()+timedelta(days=x) for x in range(0,7) if (datetime.today()+timedelta(days=x)).weekday() % 7 == 0]

(0 at the end is for next monday, returns current date when run on monday)

Answer 4

import datetime
def next_weekday(d, weekday):
    days_ahead = weekday - d.weekday()
    if days_ahead <= 0: # Target day already happened this week
        days_ahead += 7
    return d + datetime.timedelta(days_ahead)

d = datetime.date(2011, 7, 2)
next_monday = next_weekday(d, 0) # 0 = Monday, 1=Tuesday, 2=Wednesday...
print(next_monday)

Answer 5

Another simple elegant solution is to use pandas offsets.
I find it very helpful and robust when playing with dates.
- If you want the first Sunday just modify the frequency to freq='W-SUN'.
- If you want a couple of next Sundays, change the offsets.Day(days).
- Using pandas offsets allow you to ignore holidays, work only with Business Days and more.
You can also apply this method easily on a whole DataFrame using apply method.

# Getting the closest monday from a given date
closest_monday = pd.date_range(start=date, end=date + offsets.Day(6), freq='W-MON')[0]

# Adding a 'ClosestMonday' column with the closest monday for each row in a pandas df using apply
# Require you to have a 'Date' column in your df
def get_closest_monday(row):
    return pd.date_range(start=row.Date, end=row.Date + offsets.Day(6), freq='W-MON')[0]

df['ClosestMonday'] = df.apply(lambda row: get_closest_monday(row), axis=1)

Answer 6

Another alternative uses rrule

from dateutil.rrule import rrule, WEEKLY, MO
from datetime import date

next_monday = rrule(freq=WEEKLY, dtstart=date.today(), byweekday=MO, count=1)[0]

rrule docs: https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rrule.html