How To Get Week Day Name From Local date-time In Java 8 and Higher Versions?

To get the day of the week from a date-time in Java, we can use the getDayOfWeek() method of LocalDateTime class.

This method returns day names such as Monday, Tuesday, etc from the date-time object.

For example, if you want to know the name of the day on "2022-02-14T17:28:13.048999208", then the result will be "MONDAY".

Let's understand with the running examples.

How to get the Day Name of a date-time in Java

Here, we are getting name of the weekday from a date-time by using the getDayOfWeek() method. First, we created a date-time object from string date by using the parse() method. See the Java code below.

/* 
 *  Code example to get day of week from localdatetime in Java
 */
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.DayOfWeek;
public class JExercise {
	public static void main(String[] args) {		

		// String  date is given
		String strDate = "2022-02-14T17:28:13.048999208";
		// parse the date into date time
		LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.parse(strDate);

		// Displaying date and time
		System.out.println("Date : "+date);

		// Get day of week from the date
		DayOfWeek month = date.getDayOfWeek();

		// Display result
		System.out.println("Weekday Name : "+month);
	}
}

Output:

Date : 2022-02-14T17:28:13.048999208
Weekday Name: MONDAY
 

Now, let's see its signature

public DayOfWeek getDayOfWeek()

Package Name: java.time;

Class Name: LocalDateTime

Return Value: It returns the day-of-week field, which is an enum DayOfWeek, not null.

Parameters: No

Version: Since 1.8

Let's see some more examples.

Getting the Day of week of the Current date-time in Java

We can also get the day name of the week from the current date-time. Here, we first used the now() method to get the current local date-time and then used the getDayOfWeek() method. See the below Java code.

/* 
 *  Code example to get day of week from localdatetime in Java
 */
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.DayOfWeek;
public class JExercise {
	public static void main(String[] args) {		

		// Current date and time
		LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.now();

		// Displaying date and time
		System.out.println("Date : "+date);

		// Get day of week from the date
		DayOfWeek month = date.getDayOfWeek();

		// Display result
		System.out.println("Weekday Name : "+month);
	}
}

Output:

Date : 2022-03-15T19:14:46.784514294
Weekday Name: TUESDAY
 

Single Line Solution - Final Shot

Use this code to get results in a single line of code. If you are a beginner, skip this code.

LocalDateTime.now().getDayOfWeek();

This code will return the day of the week from the current date. You just need to copy this code and get the result instantly.