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MONTH
MONTH extracts the month component from a date, returning an integer between 1 (January) and 12 (December). Use it to group transactions by month, calculate months elapsed, or build monthly reporting dashboards.
Excel
=MONTH(DATE(2024,6,15))Google Sheets
=MONTH(DATE(2024,6,15))✓
Verified example
Computed by a real spreadsheet engine on the sample data below.
| OrderDate | MonthNum |
| 2024-01-10 | |
| 2024-04-22 | |
| 2024-07-05 | |
| 2024-11-30 |
=MONTH(DATE(2024,6,15))→6
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How it works
- 1Store your dates as proper date values in a column (e.g., column A).
- 2In the next column enter =MONTH(A2) to extract the month number.
- 3Optionally wrap the result with TEXT or CHOOSE to display the month name instead of a number.
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Try: “Get the month number from a list of order dates so I can group sales by month”