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Excel Formula: Get Month from Date

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To get the month value shown as number (1-12) from a given date in Excel, you can use the MONTH function to handle it.

If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.
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Generic formula:

MONTH(date)

Syntaxt and Arguments

Date: the date you want to get the month.


Return Value

The formula returns a numeric value 1-12.

How this formula works

To get the month value in the date of cell B3, please use the formula as below:

=MONTH(B3)

Or directly use the date

=MONTH("3/12/2021")

Press Enter key to get the month value.
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Explanation

MONTH function: gets the month as integer number (1 to 12) from date.


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