What is the syntax of MONTH Function in Excel?

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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 (serial_number)

Arguments

serial_number - A valid Excel date.

Example:

To use the MONTH function, supply a date:

=MONTH("23-Aug-2012") // returns 8
=MONTH("11-May-2019") // returns 5