Date.prototype.getUTCMonth()

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The getUTCMonth() method of 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).

Try it

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.

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

Specifications

Specification

ECMAScript® 2027 Language Specification
# sec-date.prototype.getutcmonth

Browser compatibility

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