Months

There are twelve months in a year:

Months in Year

Here are the twelve months in detail:

Month Number	Month	In 3 letters	Days in Month

1	January	Jan	31
2	February	Feb	28 (29 in leap years)
3	March	Mar	31
4	April	Apr	30
5	May	May	31
6	June	Jun	30
7	July	Jul	31
8	August	Aug	31
9	September	Sep	30
10	October	Oct	31
11	November	Nov	30
12	December	Dec	31

February

The strangest month of all is February.

February has only 28 days, but on Leap Years February has 29 days!

The Moon

The months were originally based on the movement of the moon (the words moon and month are related), but this did not work out perfectly to one year.

So they changed how many days in some months to make them all add up to one year.

You can remember how many days in each month using this rhyme:

30 days has September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have 31
Except February alone,
Which has 28 days clear
And 29 in each leap year.

See The Days in Each Month

See the days in each month (use the arrows to change the month):

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