MySQL Week Function

MySQL Week function is one of the MySQL Date Functions, which returns the Week number of the given date. This MySQL Week function accepts two arguments. The first one is Date, and the second argument decides whether the Week starts with Sunday or Monday. And, the return value should be in range 0 to 53 or 1 to 53.

MySQL Week Syntax

The basic syntax of the Week() Function in MySQL is as shown below:

Week(date, Mode);

Here, Mode is an optional argument. The following table shows you the Mode argument return values. For example, if Mode = 0, then the week starts on Sunday, and the return value is between 0 and 53.

Mode	First Day of the Week	Range	Week 1 is the First Week…
0	Sunday	0 – 53	Sunday in the Given Year
1	Monday	0 – 53	with 4 or more days this Year
2	Sunday	1 – 53	Sunday in the Given Year
3	Monday	1 – 53	with 4 or more days this Year
4	Sunday	0 – 53	with 4 or more days this Year
5	Monday	0 – 53	Monday in the Given Year
6	Sunday	1 – 53	with 4 or more days this Year
7	Monday	1 – 53	Monday in the Given Year

MySQL Week function Example

The following examples help you understand the use of this MySQL week function. Here, we are returning the week number without Mode argument, and with mode argument.

SELECT WEEK('2019-02-21');

SELECT WEEK('2019-02-21', 0);

SELECT WEEK('2019-02-21', 1);

OUTPUT

Let us see another example of the Week Date Function.

SELECT WEEK('2018-12-31', 1);

SELECT WEEK('2018-12-31', 2);

SELECT WEEK('2018-12-31', 3);

OUTPUT

MySQL Week Example 2

Let us see another example of the Week function. This time, we are using a few more mode values and different MySQL dates.

SELECT WEEK('2018-10-31', 4);

SELECT WEEK('2018-05-24', 1);

SELECT WEEK('2018-02-02', 3);

OUTPUT

MySQL Week function returns 0 if the date falls on the last week of the previous week. To avoid this, you can use 2, 3, 6, or 7 as a Mode argument value.

SELECT WEEK('2018-01-01', 0);

SELECT WEEK('2018-01-01', 2);

SELECT WEEK('2018-01-01', 6);

OUTPUT