pyspark.pandas.Series.dt.month_name

dt.month_name(locale: Optional[str] = None) → pyspark.pandas.series.Series

Return the month names of the series with specified locale.

Parameters
localestr, optional

Locale determining the language in which to return the month name. Default is English locale.

Returns
Series

Series of month names.

Examples

>>> series = ps.Series(pd.date_range(start='2018-01', freq='M', periods=3))
>>> series
0   2018-01-31
1   2018-02-28
2   2018-03-31
dtype: datetime64[ns]
>>> series.dt.month_name()
0     January
1    February
2       March
dtype: object