# \$1dayOfWeek
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The `$dayOfWeek` operator in Amazon DocumentDB extracts the day of the week from a given date field. It returns the day of the week as a number between 1 (Sunday) and 7 (Saturday), which is the same behavior as in MongoDB.

**Parameters**
+ `date field`: The date field to extract the day of the week from.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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This example demonstrates how to use the `$dayOfWeek` operator to extract the day of the week from the `date` field in the `weather` collection.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.weather.insertMany([
  {
    "temperature": 97.5,
    "humidity": 0.60,
    "date": new Date("2023-04-01")
  },
  {
    "temperature": 95.2,
    "humidity": 0.55,
    "date": new Date("2023-04-02")
  },
  {
    "temperature": 92.8,
    "humidity": 0.65,
    "date": new Date("2023-04-03")
  }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.weather.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      dayOfWeek: { $dayOfWeek: "$date" }
    }
  }
]).pretty();
```

**Output**

```
{ "_id" : ObjectId("64272c6663f4f8ce422c2d91"), "dayOfWeek" : 7 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("64272c6663f4f8ce422c2d92"), "dayOfWeek" : 1 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("64272c6663f4f8ce422c2d93"), "dayOfWeek" : 2 }
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$dayOfWeek` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function main() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const collection = db.collection('weather');

  const result = await collection.aggregate([
    {
      $project: {
        dayOfWeek: { $dayOfWeek: '$date' }
      }
    }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);

  await client.close();
}

main();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def main():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client.test
    collection = db.weather

    result = list(collection.aggregate([
        {
            '$project': {
                'dayOfWeek': { '$dayOfWeek': '$date' }
            }
        }
    ]))

    print(result)

    client.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
```

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