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metadata

title: Date.prototype.getUTCMonth()
short-title: getUTCMonth()
slug: Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getUTCMonth
page-type: javascript-instance-method
browser-compat: javascript.builtins.Date.getUTCMonth
sidebar: jsref

The getUTCMonth() method of {{jsxref("Date")}} instances returns the month for this date according to universal time, as a zero-based value (where zero indicates the first month of the year).

{{InteractiveExample("JavaScript Demo: Date.prototype.getUTCMonth()")}}

const date1 = new Date("December 31, 1975, 23:15:30 GMT+11:00");
const date2 = new Date("December 31, 1975, 23:15:30 GMT-11:00");

// December
console.log(date1.getUTCMonth());
// Expected output: 11

// January
console.log(date2.getUTCMonth());
// Expected output: 0

Syntax

getUTCMonth()

Parameters

None.

Return value

An integer, between 0 and 11, representing the month for the given date according to universal time: 0 for January, 1 for February, and so on. Returns NaN if the date is invalid.

Examples

Using getUTCMonth()

The following example assigns the month portion of the current date to the variable month.

const today = new Date();
const month = today.getUTCMonth();

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• {{jsxref("Date.prototype.getMonth()")}}
• {{jsxref("Date.prototype.setUTCMonth()")}}