MONTH()

Description

Returns the month for date, in the range 1 to 12 for January to December, or 0 for dates such as ‘0000-00-00’ or ‘2008-00-00’ that have a zero month part. Returns NULL if date is NULL.

Syntax

1. > MONTH(date)

Arguments

Examples

• Example 1:

1. mysql> SELECT MONTH('2008-02-03');
2. +-------------------+
3. | month(2008-02-03) |
4. +-------------------+
5. |                 2 |
6. +-------------------+
7. 1 row in set (0.02 sec)

• Example 2:

1. drop table if exists t1;
2. create table t1 (id int,d date, dt datetime,c char(10),vc varchar(20));
3. insert into t1 values (1,"2021-01-13", "2021-01-13 13:00:00", "2021-12-15", "2021-12-16");
4. insert into t1 values (1,"2021-01-31", "2021-01-31 13:00:00", "2021-12-15", "2021-12-16");
5. insert into t1 values (2,"2022-02-15", "2022-02-15 18:54:29", "2021-02-15", "2021-02-15");
6. insert into t1 values (2,"2022-02-28", "2022-02-28 18:54:29", "2021-02-15", "2021-02-15");
7. insert into t1 values (3,"2000-02-29", "2000-02-29 18:54:29", "2021-02-15", "2021-02-15");
8. insert into t1 values (4,"2023-03-17", "2021-02-17 23:54:59", "2021-03-17", "2021-03-17");
9. insert into t1 values (5,"1985-04-18", "1985-04-18 00:00:01", "1985-04-18", "1985-04-18");
10. insert into t1 values (6,"1987-05-20", "1987-05-20 22:59:59", "1987-05-20", "1987-05-20");
11. insert into t1 values (7,"1989-06-22", "1989-06-22 15:00:30", "1989-06-22", "1989-06-22");
12. insert into t1 values (8,"1993-07-25", "1987-07-25 03:04:59", "1993-07-25", "1993-07-25");
13. insert into t1 values (9,"1995-08-27", "1987-08-27 04:32:33", "1995-08-27", "1995-08-27");
14. insert into t1 values (10,"1999-09-30", "1999-09-30 10:11:12", "1999-09-30", "1999-09-30");
15. insert into t1 values (11,"2005-10-30", "2005-10-30 18:18:59", "2005-10-30", "2005-10-30");
16. insert into t1 values (12,"2008-11-30", "2008-11-30 22:59:59", "2008-11-30", "2008-11-30");
17. insert into t1 values (13,"2013-12-01", "2013-12-01 22:59:59", "2013-12-01", "2013-12-01");
18. insert into t1 values (14,null, null, null, null);

20. mysql> select month(d),month(dt) from t1;
21. +----------+-----------+
22. | month(d) | month(dt) |
23. +----------+-----------+
24. |        1 |         1 |
25. |        1 |         1 |
26. |        2 |         2 |
27. |        2 |         2 |
28. |        2 |         2 |
29. |        3 |         2 |
30. |        4 |         4 |
31. |        5 |         5 |
32. |        6 |         6 |
33. |        7 |         7 |
34. |        8 |         8 |
35. |        9 |         9 |
36. |       10 |        10 |
37. |       11 |        11 |
38. |       12 |        12 |
39. |     NULL |      NULL |
40. +----------+-----------+
41. 16 rows in set (0.01 sec)

43. mysql> select month(c),month(vc) from t1;
44. +----------+-----------+
45. | month(c) | month(vc) |
46. +----------+-----------+
47. |       12 |        12 |
48. |       12 |        12 |
49. |        2 |         2 |
50. |        2 |         2 |
51. |        2 |         2 |
52. |        3 |         3 |
53. |        4 |         4 |
54. |        5 |         5 |
55. |        6 |         6 |
56. |        7 |         7 |
57. |        8 |         8 |
58. |        9 |         9 |
59. |       10 |        10 |
60. |       11 |        11 |
61. |       12 |        12 |
62. |     NULL |      NULL |
63. +----------+-----------+
64. 16 rows in set (0.01 sec)