EDATE DAX Function (Date and Time)

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Returns the date that is the indicated number of months before or after the start date.

Syntax

EDATE ( <StartDate>, <Months> )

Parameter	Attributes	Description
StartDate		A date in datetime format that represents the start date.
Months		The number of months before or after start_date.

Return values

Scalar A single datetime value.

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Examples

--  EDATE adds months to a date, 
--  EOMONTH does the same, and it also goes at the end of the month
EVALUATE
ADDCOLUMNS (
    TOPN ( 10, VALUES ( 'Date'[Date] ), 'Date'[Date], ASC ),
    "EDATE, +1", EDATE ( 'Date'[Date], +1 ),
    "EDATE, -1", EDATE ( 'Date'[Date], -1 ),
    "EOMONTH, 0", EOMONTH ( 'Date'[Date], 0 ),
    "EOMONTH, +1", EOMONTH ( 'Date'[Date], +1 ),
    "EOMONTH, -1", EOMONTH ( 'Date'[Date], -1 )
)
ORDER BY 'Date'[Date]

Date	EDATE, +1	EDATE, -1	EOMONTH, 0	EOMONTH, +1	EOMONTH, -1
2005-01-01	2005-02-01	2004-12-01	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-02	2005-02-02	2004-12-02	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-03	2005-02-03	2004-12-03	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-04	2005-02-04	2004-12-04	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-05	2005-02-05	2004-12-05	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-06	2005-02-06	2004-12-06	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-07	2005-02-07	2004-12-07	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-08	2005-02-08	2004-12-08	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-09	2005-02-09	2004-12-09	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31
2005-01-10	2005-02-10	2004-12-10	2005-01-31	2005-02-28	2004-12-31

Related articles

Learn more about EDATE in the following articles:

• Previous year up to a certain date

  This article describes how to compute previous year values up to a certain date. This is useful in case the data is presenting incomplete months or years. » Read more

Related functions

Other related functions are:

• EOMONTH

Last update: Oct 22, 2025   » Contribute   » Show contributors

Contributors: Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo

Microsoft documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/edate-function-dax