Get the Day of the Week from Today's Date in Java

To get the day of the week, use the Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK.

Firstly, let us get the current date.

java.util.Date utilDate = new java.util.Date(); java.sql.Date dt = new java.sql.Date(utilDate.getTime());

Now, using GregorianCalendar, set the time.

java.util.GregorianCalendar cal = new java.util.GregorianCalendar(); cal.setTime(dt);

The last step would display the day of the week as shown in the following example.

Example

 Live Demo

import java.text.ParseException; public class Demo {    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {       java.util.Date utilDate = new java.util.Date();       java.sql.Date dt = new java.sql.Date(utilDate.getTime());       System.out.println("Today's date: "+dt);       java.util.GregorianCalendar cal = new java.util.GregorianCalendar();       cal.setTime(dt);       // Getting the day of the week       System.out.println("Day of the week: "+cal.get(java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));    } }

Output

Today's date: 2018-11-19 Day of the week: 2