Get the Number of Days in a Month using JavaScript

Get the Number of Days in a Month #

To get the number of days in a month:

1. Call the new Date() constructor, passing it 0 for the days.
2. The method will return the date corresponding to the last day of the month.
3. Call the getDate() method on the result to get the number of days in the month.

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function getDaysInMonth(year, month) {
  return new Date(year, month, 0).getDate();
}

const date = new Date();
const currentYear = date.getFullYear();
const currentMonth = date.getMonth() + 1; // 👈️ months are 0-based

// 👇️ Current Month
const daysInCurrentMonth = getDaysInMonth(currentYear, currentMonth);
console.log(daysInCurrentMonth);

// 👇️ Other Months
const daysInJanuary = getDaysInMonth(2025, 1);
console.log(daysInJanuary); // 👉️ 31

const daysInSeptember = getDaysInMonth(2025, 9);
console.log(daysInSeptember); // 👉️ 30

We passed the following 3 arguments to the new Date() constructor:

1. The year for which we want to create a Date object
2. The month index for which we want to create a Date object. Month indexes are zero based - 0 is January and 11 is December.
3. The day for which to create a Date object. When 0 is used for the days, we get back the last day of the previous month. We use this approach to balance out the zero-based month index.

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const date = new Date();

// 👇️ add 1 to get correct value
const currentMonth = date.getMonth() + 1;

Passing 0 for the days parameter, allows us to use intuitive month indexes when using the Date constructor.

For example, passing a month index of 2, gives us the last day in February, and not March.

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console.log(new Date(2025, 1, 0)); // 👉️ Fri January 31 2025
console.log(new Date(2025, 2, 0)); // 👉️ Fri Feb 28 2025

The last step is to call the Date.getDate method. The method returns an integer from 1 to 31, which represents the day of the month for a given date.

Getting the integer representation of the last day of the month is the equivalent of getting the number of days in the month.

Further Reading #

• Get the Number of Days in the Current Month in JavaScript
• How to get Current Year, Month and Day in JavaScript