# \$1hour
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The `$hour` operator extracts the hour component from a date or timestamp field.

**Parameters**
+ `dateExpression`: The date to which the operator is applied. This must resolve to a valid BSON date (e.g., a field like \$1createdAt or a date literal).

A parameter can also be specified as a document in the following format:

\$1 date: `&lt;dateExpression&gt;`, timezone: `&lt;timezoneExpression&gt;` \$1

This allows to apply timezone-aware date operations.

```
- `<tzExpression>`: (optional) The timezone of the operation result. It must be a valid expression that resolves to a string formatted as either an Olson Timezone Identifier or a UTC Offset. If no timezone is provided, the result is in UTC.
```

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example demonstrates how to use the `$hour` operator to extract the hour component from a date field and group the data accordingly.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.events.insertMany([
  { timestamp: new Date("2023-04-01T10:30:00Z") },
  { timestamp: new Date("2023-04-01T12:45:00Z") },
  { timestamp: new Date("2023-04-02T08:15:00Z") },
  { timestamp: new Date("2023-04-02T16:20:00Z") },
  { timestamp: new Date("2023-04-03T23:59:00Z") }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.events.aggregate([
  {
    $project: {
      hour: { $hour: "$timestamp" }
    }
  },
  {
    $group: {
      _id: "$hour",
      count: { $sum: 1 }
    }
  },
  {
    $sort: { _id: 1 }
  }
]);
```

**Output**

```
[
  { "_id": 8, "count": 1 },
  { "_id": 10, "count": 1 },
  { "_id": 12, "count": 1 },
  { "_id": 16, "count": 1 },
  { "_id": 23, "count": 1 }
]
```

This query groups the events by the hour component of the `timestamp` field and counts the number of events for each hour.

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

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#### [ Node.js ]

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

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

    const result = await collection.aggregate([
      {
        $project: {
          hour: { $hour: "$timestamp" }
        }
      },
      {
        $group: {
          _id: "$hour",
          count: { $sum: 1 }
        }
      },
      {
        $sort: { _id: 1 }
      }
    ]).toArray();

    console.log(result);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error occurred:', error);
  } finally {
    await client.close();
  }
}

example();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient
from datetime import datetime

def example():
    try:
        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.events

        result = list(collection.aggregate([
            {
                "$project": {
                    "hour": {"$hour": "$timestamp"}
                }
            },
            {
                "$group": {
                    "_id": "$hour",
                    "count": {"$sum": 1}
                }
            },
            {
                "$sort": {"_id": 1}
            }
        ]))

        print(result)

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
    
    finally:
        client.close()

example()
```

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