pandas Holiday Calendars Use a custom calendar
Example
Here is how to use the custom calendar.
Get the holidays between two dates
import pandas as pd
from datetime import date
# Creating some boundaries
year = 2016
start = date(year, 1, 1)
end = start + pd.offsets.MonthEnd(12)
# Creating a custom calendar
cal = FrBusinessCalendar()
# Getting the holidays (off-days) between two dates
cal.holidays(start=start, end=end)
# DatetimeIndex(['2016-01-01', '2016-03-28', '2016-05-01', '2016-05-05',
# '2016-05-08', '2016-07-14', '2016-08-15', '2016-11-01',
# '2016-11-11', '2016-12-25'],
# dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq=None)
Count the number of working days between two dates
It is sometimes useful to get the number of working days by month whatever the year in the future or in the past. Here is how to do that with a custom calendar.
from pandas.tseries.offsets import CDay
# Creating a series of dates between the boundaries
# by using the custom calendar
se = pd.bdate_range(start=start,
end=end,
freq=CDay(calendar=cal)).to_series()
# Counting the number of working days by month
se.groupby(se.dt.month).count().head()
# 1 20
# 2 21
# 3 22
# 4 21
# 5 21
