Pandas Series dt.day_name() Method | Get Day From Date in Pandas

Pandas dt.day_name() method returns the day names of the DateTime Series objects with specified locale.

Example

Output:

👁 dt.day_name() method output

Syntax

Syntax: Series.dt.day_name(locale) 

Parameter

• locale : Locale determining the language in which to return the day name. Default is English locale. 

Returns: Index of day names.

How to Extract Day Name from Date in Pandas Series

To extract the day name from a given date in the Pandas Series we use the Series.dt.day_name() method of the Pandas library in Python.

Let us understand it better with an example:

Example:

Use the dt.day_name() function to return the day names of the underlying DateTime data in the given Series object.

Output :

👁 datetime series created

Now we will use the Series.dt.day_name() function to return the names of the day of each timestamp in the given series object.

Output :

👁 day name extracted in French

As we can see in the output, the Series.dt.day_name() function has successfully returned the names of the day in the specified language.