How do I iterate through date range in Java?

The following code snippet shows you how to iterate through a range of dates in Java. We use the Java Date Time API. We do increment and decrement iteration using a simple for loop.

Here are the steps:

We declare the start and end date of the loop, the dates are instance of java.time.LocalDate.
Create a for loop.
In the for loop we set the initialization variable the start date.
The loop executed if the date is less than end date, using the isBefore() method, otherwise it will be terminated.
The date will be incremented by 1 on each loop.

package org.kodejava.datetime;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.TextStyle;
import java.util.Locale;

public class DateIteration {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LocalDate start = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 1);
        LocalDate end = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 8);

        System.out.println("Start = " + start);
        System.out.println("End   = " + end);
        System.out.println("--------------------");

        for (LocalDate date = start; date.isBefore(end); date = date.plusDays(1)) {
            System.out.printf("Date %tD is %s%n", date, date.getDayOfWeek());
        }

        System.out.println("--------------------");

        for (LocalDate date = end; date.isAfter(start); date = date.minusDays(1)) {
            System.out.printf("Date %tD is %s%n", date, date.getDayOfWeek()
                    .getDisplayName(TextStyle.SHORT, Locale.getDefault()));
        }
    }
}

Running the code snippet gives you the following output:

Start = 2023-10-01
End   = 2023-10-08
--------------------
Date 10/01/23 is SUNDAY
Date 10/02/23 is MONDAY
Date 10/03/23 is TUESDAY
Date 10/04/23 is WEDNESDAY
Date 10/05/23 is THURSDAY
Date 10/06/23 is FRIDAY
Date 10/07/23 is SATURDAY
--------------------
Date 10/08/23 is Sun
Date 10/07/23 is Sat
Date 10/06/23 is Fri
Date 10/05/23 is Thu
Date 10/04/23 is Wed
Date 10/03/23 is Tue
Date 10/02/23 is Mon

Next, we are going to use while loop.

Define the start and end date to loop
We increment the start date by 1 day.
Execute the loop if the start date is before end date.

package org.kodejava.datetime;

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class WhileDateIteration {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LocalDate start = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 1).minusDays(1);
        LocalDate end = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 8);

        while ((start = start.plusDays(1)).isBefore(end)) {
            System.out.printf("Date %tD is %s%n", start, start.getDayOfWeek());
        }
    }
}

The result of the code snippet above is:

Date 10/01/23 is SUNDAY
Date 10/02/23 is MONDAY
Date 10/03/23 is TUESDAY
Date 10/04/23 is WEDNESDAY
Date 10/05/23 is THURSDAY
Date 10/06/23 is FRIDAY
Date 10/07/23 is SATURDAY

To use the Java stream, we can do it like the following code snippet:

package org.kodejava.datetime;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class StreamDateIteration {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LocalDate start = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 1);
        LocalDate end = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 8);

        Stream.iterate(start, date -> date.plusDays(1))
                .limit(ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(start, end))
                .forEach(date -> {
                    System.out.printf("Date %tD is %s%n", date, date.getDayOfWeek());
                });
    }
}

The result of the code snippet above is:

Date 10/01/23 is SUNDAY
Date 10/02/23 is MONDAY
Date 10/03/23 is TUESDAY
Date 10/04/23 is WEDNESDAY
Date 10/05/23 is THURSDAY
Date 10/06/23 is FRIDAY
Date 10/07/23 is SATURDAY

From Java 9 we can use LocalDate.datesUntil() method. It will iterate from the date to the specified end date by increment step of 1 day or the specified increment of Period.

package org.kodejava.datetime;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.Period;

public class DatesUntilDateIteration {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LocalDate start = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 1);
        LocalDate end = LocalDate.of(2023, 10, 8);

        start.datesUntil(end).forEach(date -> {
            System.out.printf("Date %tD is %s%n", date, date.getDayOfWeek());
        });

        start.datesUntil(end, Period.ofDays(2)).forEach(System.out::println);
    }
}

Running the code snippet produces the following result:

Date 10/01/23 is SUNDAY
Date 10/02/23 is MONDAY
Date 10/03/23 is TUESDAY
Date 10/04/23 is WEDNESDAY
Date 10/05/23 is THURSDAY
Date 10/06/23 is FRIDAY
Date 10/07/23 is SATURDAY
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2023-10-07

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