Vanilla JavaScript get Month Name

Sticking to the date theme, as we have seen how to get the days between two dates yesterday. Today we are going to learn how we can get a month's name in JavaScript.

How to get the month name in Javascript permalink

So let's start off by creating a date object:

const date = new Date();
// Todays date

We can use the JavaScript function toLocaleString to get a months name.

console.log(date.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'long' }));
// May

Instead of the long option we can also use the short option and get the month name like for instance Dec

const december = new Date('12/01/2020');
console.log(december.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'short' }));
// Dec

And as you have seen we are providing the default keyword. This is the placeholder for the locale.

So let's get a months name in a different locale with this code:

const december = new Date('12/01/2020');
console.log(december.toLocaleString('fr-FR', { month: 'long' }));
// décembre

As you can see, now we got the months name from the date object for a different country/language.

See the code examples in this Codepen permalink

I hope you found this a useful tip and feel free to check out the Codepen.

See the Pen Vanilla JavaScript get Month Name by Chris Bongers (@rebelchris) on CodePen.

Browser Support permalink

The toLocaleString method is a widely supported method. Feel free to use it.

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