In other words, the harmonic mean is the reciprocal of the average of the reciprocals.

The HARMEAN function takes multiple arguments in the formnumber1,number2,number3, etc.

up to 255 total.

Excel AVERAGE function

Arguments can be a hardcoded constant, a cell reference, or a range.

Examples

The average of 1, 2, and 6 is 3.

TRIMMEAN Function

The Excel TRIMMEAN function calculates mean (average) while excluding outliers.

Excel TRIMMEAN function

The number of data points to exclude is provided as a percentage.

GEOMEAN Function

The Excel GEOMEAN function returns the geometric mean for a set of numeric values.

Geometric mean can be used to calculate average rate of return with variable rates.

Excel GEOMEAN function