Alternatives

dayjs alternatives

6 packages that do the same job as dayjs: date-fns, luxon, moment, @js-joda/core, date-fns-tz, @date-fns/tz. Figures below are from npm, GitHub and Bundlephobia.

Data as of 25 Sept 2026

dayjs and 6 alternatives compared

Package	Weekly downloads	12-month change	Gzip	Last release	Module	Types	Runtimes
dayjs This package	51.5m	+95%	-	1 month ago	CommonJS	Bundled	Browser, Node.js
date-fns	72.4m	+129%	-	3 months ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	Browser, Node.js
luxon	27.4m	+99%	-	1 year ago	ESM + CommonJS	None	Browser, Node.js
moment	26.5m	+22%	-	10 days ago	CommonJS	Bundled	Browser, Node.js
@js-joda/core	3.1m	+91%	-	2 months ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
date-fns-tz	7.5m	+77%	-	1 year ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
@date-fns/tz	27m	+827%	-	4 months ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-

12-month change compares the average of the last 4 weeks of downloads with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series. Gzip size is for the whole package (Bundlephobia). Runtimes are taken from each package's own documentation; "-" means not recorded.

date-fns

Collection of standalone functions for working with native JavaScript Date objects.

Functions operate on the native Date type and do not extend core objects.
Pure functions that always return a new date instance.
v4 added time zone support through the separate @date-fns/tz package, which provides TZDate.
Written in TypeScript. Locales are imported individually.

Compared with dayjs

1.4x more weekly downloads (72.4m vs 51.5m)
ESM + CommonJS vs CommonJS
Last release 29 May 2026 vs 17 Aug 2026
1.3x fewer GitHub stars (36.6k vs 48.7k)

date-fns package page date-fns vs dayjs

Notes checked against: date-fns README, date-fns v4.0 announcement

luxon

Date and time library with DateTime, Duration and Interval types, built on the Intl API.

Uses the native Intl API for time zones and locales, so no locale or time zone data files are needed.
Some Intl behaviour is browser-dependent, so Luxon's output can differ on older browsers.
Written by one of the Moment.js maintainers and hosted under the moment GitHub organisation.

Compared with dayjs

1.9x fewer weekly downloads (27.4m vs 51.5m)
ESM + CommonJS vs CommonJS
No types vs bundled types
Declares Node.js >=12 vs none declared
Last release 5 Sept 2025 vs 17 Aug 2026
3.0x fewer GitHub stars (16.5k vs 48.7k)

luxon package page luxon vs dayjs

Notes checked against: Luxon README, Why does Luxon exist?, Luxon install guide

moment

Date library for parsing, validating, manipulating and formatting dates.

The README says: "Moment.js is a legacy project, now in maintenance mode. New features are not being accepted."
The project status page says the mutable API will not be redesigned.
The same page says a 3.0 release is no longer ruled out, but only as a maintenance release with no schedule announced.
Published as CommonJS.