How to get the Current Month in JavaScript

Get the Current Month in JavaScript #

To get the current month:

1. Use the new Date() constructor to get a date object.
2. Call the getMonth() method on the object and add 1 to the result.
3. The getMonth method returns a zero-based month index so adding 1 returns the current month.

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// 👇️ Get digit of Current Month
const currentMonth = new Date().getMonth() + 1;
console.log(currentMonth); // 👉️ 10

// 👇️ Get Name of Current Month
const nameOfMonth = new Date().toLocaleString(
  'default', {month: 'long'}
);
console.log(nameOfMonth); // 👉️ October

// 👇️ Get Localized Names of Current Month
const nameOfMonthUS = new Date().toLocaleString(
  'en-US', {month: 'long'}
);
console.log(nameOfMonthUS); // 👉️ October

const nameOfMonthDE = new Date().toLocaleString(
  'de-DE', {month: 'long'}
);
console.log(nameOfMonthDE); // 👉️ Oktober

We used the new Date() constructor to get a date object for the current date.

In the first example, we called the getMonth method on the result and added 1 to get the digit representation of the current month.

To get an accurate digit representing the current month, we had to add 1 to the result.

In our following examples, we used the toLocaleString method to get the name of the current month.

We passed the following parameters to the method:

1. the locale - in which language the name of the month should be returned. By specifying default, it can vary based on the user's browser preferences.
2. the options object - we set the month setting to long to get the full name of the month. Other possible values are short and narrow.

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// 👇️ October
console.log(new Date().toLocaleString(
  'en-US', {month: 'long'})
);

// 👇️ Oct
console.log(new Date().toLocaleString(
  'en-US', {month: 'short'})
);

// 👇️ O
console.log(new Date().toLocaleString(
  'en-US', {month: 'narrow'})
);

To view other possible parameters you can pass to the toLocaleString method, check this section from the MDN docs out.

Further Reading #

• Get the Month Name from a Date in JavaScript
• Get the Number of Days in the Current Month in JavaScript