MONTH (Date) MONTH (Date) Date Temporal Temporal The date to be converted. Returns Number Number The month of the date (1 through 12). Details Returns the month of a given date, as a number from 1 (January) through 12 (December). See also DAY and YEAR for extracting other components of a date, and DATE for constructing a date from its components. Example MONTH ( DATE (2013, 1, 5)) MONTH ( DATE (2013; 1; 5)) Returns 1, the month of the given date, January 5, 2013.