Pandas Series: dt.month_name() function

Last update on September 15 2022 12:55:08 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Series.dt.month_name() function

The dt.month_name() function is used to get the month names of the DateTimeIndex with specified locale.

Syntax:

Series.dt.month_name(self, *args, **kwargs)

Parameter:

Name	Description	Type / Default Value
locale	Locale determining the language in which to return the month name. Default is English locale.	str

Returns: Index
Index of month names.

Example:

Python-Pandas Code:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
idx = pd.date_range(start='2019-01', freq='M', periods=4)
idx

Output:

DatetimeIndex(['2019-01-31', '2019-02-28', '2019-03-31', '2019-04-30'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='M')

Python-Pandas Code:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
idx = pd.date_range(start='2019-01', freq='M', periods=4)
idx.month_name()

Output:

Index(['January', 'February', 'March', 'April'], dtype='object')

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