How to get quarter from a date in Excel

In this guide, we're going to show you how to get quarter from a date in Excel.

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To get quarter from a date, you simply need to divide the month by 3 and round up the result to the nearest integer.

Since each quarter of the year consists of 3 months, dividing the month of a date by 3 returns the number of 3-month intervals. For example, 6 months is two quarters, meaning that the month is in the 2^nd quarter. If a number with decimal point is returns=ed, the whole part of the number indicates the previous quarter. For example, 7 by 3 equals to 2.33 approximately which means its in the 3^rd quarter.

You can get the month number of a date easily by the MONTH function. The ROUNDUP function can round the given number up to the specific decimal digit. Since we need a whole number, the second argument of the ROUNDUP function should be 0.

You can also add labels and even the year of the date to the quarter value.

If your Excel model covers multiple years, you can easily add the year of the evaluated date in a couple of ways:

1. The YEAR function returns the year from a given date just like in MONTH
2. Alternatively, you can use the TEXT function to get the year.

Prefer using the YEAR function to return a 4-digit year number.

Check out the TEXT function and number formatting in Excel to modify any date without extensive formulations. To get a 2-digit year notation, use the TEXT function with “YY” format.