MySQL Month Function

MySQL Month function is one of the MySQL Date Function, which returns the Month number from a given date. This MySQL Month function returns integer range from 1 to 12 where 1 = January and 12 = December.

MySQL Month Syntax

The basic syntax of the Month Function in MySQL is as shown below:

MONTH(date or expression);

TIP: This Month function returns 0 if the user-specified date argument is 0000-00-00 or 2019-00-00. Or Say, it returns 0 if the Zero Month part is given.

MySQL Month function Example

The below shown queries help you understand the use of this Month function. Here, we are returning the Month numbers from the different date expression, and the Date & time expression.

SELECT MONTH('2015-12-22');

SELECT MONTH('2015-02-20 01:22:14');

SELECT MONTH('2016-08-20');

OUTPUT

MySQL Month Function Example 2

The following query shows you what happens when we try to return the month number from a date in string format.

Here, we are returning month number from the current date and time returned by the Now() function, CURDATE() function, and UTC_TIMESTAMP function.

SELECT CURDATE(), MONTH(CURDATE());

SELECT NOW(), MONTH(NOW());

SELECT UTC_TIMESTAMP(), MONTH(UTC_TIMESTAMP());

OUTPUT

Here, we are trying to return the month number from YYYYMMDD, YYMMDD formats. Within the last statement, we used the zero month part. That’s why it returns NULL.

SELECT MONTH('20160922');

SELECT MONTH('160212');

SELECT MONTH('2019-00-00'), MONTH('0');

OUTPUT

Month Example 3

In this example, let us see how to use this Month function on a table. Here, we are returning the month number from the Hire Date column.

For this Month function demo, we are using Workbench to write a query against the customer table.

SELECT EmpID,
       FirstName,
       LastName,
       Occupation,
       YearlyIncome,
       Sales,
       HireDate,
       MONTH(HireDate)
 FROM `MySQL Tutorial`.customer;

OUTPUT