pyspark.sql.functions.weekday

pyspark.sql.functions.weekday(col)

Returns the day of the week for date/timestamp (0 = Monday, 1 = Tuesday, …, 6 = Sunday).

New in version 3.5.0.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target date/timestamp column to work on.

Returns

Column

the day of the week for date/timestamp (0 = Monday, 1 = Tuesday, …, 6 = Sunday).

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('2015-04-08',)], ['dt'])
>>> df.select(weekday('dt').alias('day')).show()
+---+
|day|
+---+
|  2|
+---+