Excel MONTH Function
Summary
The Excel MONTH function returns the month portion of a date as number between 1 to 12 when given a date. You can use the MONTH function to extract a month number from a date into a cell. You can also use the MONTH function to feed a month number to another formula, like the DATE function.
Purpose
Get the month as a number (1-12) from a date
Return value
A number between 1 and 12.
Syntax
=MONTH (date)
Arguments
- date - A valid date in a format Excel recognizes.
Usage notes
- Date must be a valid Excel date.
- Excel stores dates as serial numbers. For example, the date Jan 1, 2000 is equal to the serial number 32526 in Excel.
- To check that Excel is correctly recognizing a date, you can temporarily format the date as a number.
- Excel only recognizes dates after 1/1/1900.
MONTH formula examples
To add a given number of years to a date, you can use a formula based on the DATE function, with help from the YEAR, MONTH, and DAY functions.
In the example shown, the formula in D5 is:
=DATE(YEAR(B5)+C5,MONTH(B5),...
To test two dates to see they both have the same month, you can do so with a simple formula that uses the MONTH function. In the example shown, the formula in cell D6 is:
=MONTH(B6)=MONTH(C6)
How the formula works...
If you need to get the month name (i.e. January, February, March, etc.) from a date, you have several options depending on your needs.
Do you just want to display the month name?
If you only want to display a month...
If need to generate a dynamic series of dates with a formula that increase by one year from a single start date, you can do so with a formula that uses the DAY, MONTH, YEAR, and DATE functions.
How the formula works...
If you want to calculate the quarter (i.e. 1,2,3,4) from a date, you can use the ROUNDUP function together with MONTH.
In the example shown, the formula in cell C5 is:
=ROUNDUP(MONTH(B5)/3,0)
How this formula works...
If you need to extract the month from a date, you can use the MONTH function. In the generic form of the formula above, the date must be in a form that Excel recognizes as a valid date.
Here's how the formula works:...
To count the number of birthdays in a list, you can use a formula based on the SUMPRODUCT and MONTH functions. In the example shown, E5 contains this formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(birthday)=D5))
This formula counts...
If you want to test whether the year of a certain date is a leap year, you can use a formula that uses the MONTH, YEAR, and DATE functions.
In the example shown, the formula in cell C5 is:
=MONTH(DATE(YEAR(B5),2,29...
To generate a dynamic series of dates with a formula that increases by one month from a single start date, you can use a formula based on DAY, MONTH, YEAR, and DATE functions.
How the formula works
In the example, B6...
If you want to calculate the fiscal quarter from a date, and the fiscal quarter starts in a month other than January, you can use a formula based on the CHOOSE function.
Note: if you just need to calculate a "normal"...
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