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---
title: Add days to date
tags: date
expertise: intermediate
author: maciv
firstSeen: 2020-10-28T16:19:04+02:00
lastUpdated: 2020-10-28T16:19:04+02:00
---
Calculates the date of `n` days from the given date.
- Use `datetime.timedelta` and the `+` operator to calculate the new `datetime.datetime` value after adding `n` days to `d`.
- Omit the second argument, `d`, to use a default value of `datetime.today()`.
```py
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
def add_days(n, d = datetime.today()):
return d + timedelta(n)
```
```py
from datetime import date
add_days(5, date(2020, 10, 25)) # date(2020, 10, 30)
add_days(-5, date(2020, 10, 25)) # date(2020, 10, 20)
```