Excel YEAR Function

Summary

The Excel YEAR function returns the year component of a date as a 4-digit number. You can use the YEAR function to extract a year number from a date into a cell. You can also use the YEAR function to extract and feed a year value into another formula, like the DATE function.

Purpose

Get the year from a date

Return value

A number representing year.

Syntax

=YEAR (date)

Arguments

date - A date from which to extract the year.

Usage notes

date - date must be a valid Excel date in serial number format. For example, the date Jan 1, 2000 is equal to the serial number 32526 in Excel

Excel only handles dates after 1/1/1900.