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).

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Syntax

js
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 Language Specification
# sec-date.prototype.getutcmonth

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
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Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
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Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
Node.js
getUTCMonth

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