Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Counting Times within a Range.
William has a list of times in column A. He needs a way to find how many of the times fall within a time range, such as between 8:30 am and 9:00 am. He tried using COUNTIF and a few other functions, but couldn't get the formulas to work right.
There are actually a few different ways you can count the times within the desired range, including using the COUNTIF function. In fact, here are two different ways you could construct the formula using COUNTIF:
=COUNTIF(A1:A100,">="&TIME(8,30,0))-COUNTIF(A1:A100,">"&TIME(9,0,0)) =COUNTIF(A1:A100,">=08:30")-COUNTIF(A1:A100,">09:00")
Either one will work fine; they only differ in how the starting and ending times for the range are specified. The key to the formulas is to grab a count of the times that are greater than the earliest boundary of the range and then subtract from that the times that are greater than the upper boundary.
You can shorten the formula by using the COUNTIFS function instead:
=COUNTIFS(A1:A100,">=8:30",A1:A100,"<=9:00")
You could also use the SUMPRODUCT function to get the desired result, in this manner:
=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A100>=8.5/24) * (A1:A100<=9/24))
This approach only works if the values in the range A1:A100 contain only time values. If there are dates stored in the cells as well, then it may not work because of the way that Excel stores dates internally. If the range does include dates, then you need to modify the formula to take that into account:
=SUMPRODUCT((ROUND(MOD(A1:A100,1),10)>=8.5/24) * (ROUND(MOD(A1:A100,1),10)<=9/24))
Finally, you could skip formulas altogether and use Excel's filtering capabilities. Apply a custom filter and you can specify that you only want times within the range you need. These are then displayed and you can easily count the results.
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2017-09-17 22:08:25
bob
I have tried the formulas listed above and only the sumproduct formula will count multiple cells containing the exact same time.
2017-09-07 19:08:28
Harish
I need the total number of cells in sheet1 Column A that are less than 16 hours in sheet 2 F7 cell.
For Ex
Sheet 1 Column A
2017/08/10 03:00:00
2017/07/01 00:00:00
2017/09/08 00:00:00
2017/09/08 02:00:00
Now Date & Time is 2017/09/08 14:00:00
Sheet 2 F7 cell should show 3
Now Date & Time is 2017/09/08 18:01:00
Sheet2 F7 cell should show 4.
Sheet 2 F7 cell should automatically update.
2017-07-20 10:41:48
Peter
Saura,
I wasn't prompted to upload my image so.
B5:D5 contained the times 8:00, 12:00 and 18:00
The formulas return 1 if they meet the criterion so we can use a simple sum in the range B3:D3
2017-07-20 10:34:33
Peter Atherton
Saura
I used the following formulas
Cell Formulas
B1 =TODAY()
D1 =B1-90
B6 =IF(LEN(A6)=0,"",IF(AND(A6>$D$1,$A6-INT($A6)>=B$5,$A6-INT($A6)<C$5),1,""))
C6 =IF(LEN(A6)>0,IF(AND($A6>$D$1,$A6-INT($A6)>=C$5,$A6-INT($A6)<D$5),1,""),"")
D6 =IF(LEN(A6)=0,"",IF($A6<$D$1,"",IF(OR($A6-INT($A6)>=D$5,$A6-INT($A6)<($B$5)),1,"")))
B3 =SUM(B$6:B$101)
Hope this helps
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2017-07-19 10:19:34
Saura Tripathy
HI,
Very nice article. I stumbled upon this page while looking for a solution for time calculation. I have been tasked with data to find out how many tickets we received during AM, PM and Night hours for last 90 days. I searched a lot of articles now. But not been able to find any solution so far. It would be great in case you could help. (see Figure 1 below)
The date and time (Eg. 7/17/2017 10:40:54 PM) are mentioned in a single column with random dates for last 90 days. If I convert the times to proper format, I'll loose the date value. Attached a screenshot to explain the requirement. Appreciate any help or suggestion.
Regards,
SJ
Figure 1.
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