pyspark.sql.functions.month

pyspark.sql.functions.month(col: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column

Extract the month of a given date/timestamp as integer.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target date/timestamp column to work on.

Returns

Column

month part of the date/timestamp as integer.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('2015-04-08',)], ['dt'])
>>> df.select(month('dt').alias('month')).collect()
[Row(month=4)]

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