MONTH Function

 

Summary

The Excel MONTH function extracts the month from a given date as number between 1 to 12. You can use the MONTH function to extract a month number from a date into a cell or to feed a month number into another function like the DATE function.

Purpose

Get month as a number (1-12) from a date

Return

value A number between 1 and 12.

Syntax

=MONTH (date)


Arguments

date - A valid Excel date.

Usage notes

The MONTH function extracts the month from a given date as number between 1 to 12. For example:

=MONTH("23-Aug-2012") à returns 8

=MONTH("11-May-2019") à returns 5

You can use the MONTH function to extract a month number from a date into a cell or to feed a month number into another function like the DATE function.

Dates are serial numbers in Excel and begin on January 1, 1900. Dates before 1900 are not supported. To display date values in a human-readable date format, apply the number format of your choice. Date must be a valid Excel date. MONTH will return a #VALUE error on text values.

Working days left in month

formula

=NETWORKDAYS(date,EOMONTH(date,0),holidays)

Explanation

To calculate the number of workdays remaining in a month, you can use the NETWORKDAYS function. NETWORKDAYS automatically excludes weekends and it can optionally exclude a custom list of holidays as well.

Custom workdays / weekends

To work with custom weekends (i.e. weekends are Sunday and Monday etc.) switch to the more robust NETWORKDAYS.INTL function which allows control over which days of the week are considered workdays.

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