Django: Group by date (day, month, year)

Solution 1:

Django 1.10 and above

Django documentation lists extra as deprecated soon. (Thanks for pointing that out @seddonym, @Lucas03). I opened a ticket and this is the solution that jarshwah provided.

from django.db.models.functions import TruncMonth
from django.db.models import Count

Sales.objects
    .annotate(month=TruncMonth('created'))  # Truncate to month and add to select list
    .values('month')                          # Group By month
    .annotate(c=Count('id'))                  # Select the count of the grouping
    .values('month', 'c')                     # (might be redundant, haven't tested) select month and count

Older versions

from django.db import connection
from django.db.models import Sum, Count

truncate_date = connection.ops.date_trunc_sql('month', 'created')
qs = Order.objects.extra({'month':truncate_date})
report = qs.values('month').annotate(Sum('total'), Count('pk')).order_by('month')

Edits

Added count
Added information for django >= 1.10

Solution 2:

Just a small addition to @tback answer: It didn't work for me with Django 1.10.6 and postgres. I added order_by() at the end to fix it.

from django.db.models.functions import TruncMonth
Sales.objects
    .annotate(month=TruncMonth('timestamp'))  # Truncate to month and add to select list
    .values('month')                          # Group By month
    .annotate(c=Count('id'))                  # Select the count of the grouping
    .order_by()

Solution 3:

Another approach is to use ExtractMonth. I ran into trouble using TruncMonth due to only one datetime year value being returned. For example, only the months in 2009 were being returned. ExtractMonth fixed this problem perfectly and can be used like below:

from django.db.models.functions import ExtractMonth
Sales.objects
    .annotate(month=ExtractMonth('timestamp')) 
    .values('month')                          
    .annotate(count=Count('id'))                  
    .values('month', 'count')

Solution 4:

    metrics = {
        'sales_sum': Sum('total'),
    }
    queryset = Order.objects.values('created__month')
                               .annotate(**metrics)
                               .order_by('created__month')

The queryset is a list of Order, one line per month, combining the sum of sales: sales_sum

@Django 2.1.7

Solution 5:

Here's my dirty method. It is dirty.

import datetime, decimal
from django.db.models import Count, Sum
from account.models import Order
d = []

# arbitrary starting dates
year = 2011
month = 12

cyear = datetime.date.today().year
cmonth = datetime.date.today().month

while year <= cyear:
    while (year < cyear and month <= 12) or (year == cyear and month <= cmonth):
        sales = Order.objects.filter(created__year=year, created__month=month).aggregate(Count('total'), Sum('total'))
        d.append({
            'year': year,
            'month': month,
            'sales': sales['total__count'] or 0,
            'value': decimal.Decimal(sales['total__sum'] or 0),
        })
        month += 1
    month = 1
    year += 1

There may well be a better way of looping years/months but that's not really what I care about :)