pyspark.sql.functions.hour#

pyspark.sql.functions.hour(col)[source]#

Extract the hours of a given timestamp as integer.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str: target date/timestamp column to work on.

Returns

Column: hour part of the timestamp as integer.

Examples

>>> import datetime
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([(datetime.datetime(2015, 4, 8, 13, 8, 15),)], ['ts'])
>>> df.select(hour('ts').alias('hour')).collect()
[Row(hour=13)]