Java: Get month Integer from Date

java.time (Java 8)

You can also use the java.time package in Java 8 and convert your java.util.Date object to a java.time.LocalDate object and then just use the getMonthValue() method.

Date date = new Date();
LocalDate localDate = date.toInstant().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDate();
int month = localDate.getMonthValue();

Note that month values are here given from 1 to 12 contrary to cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) in adarshr's answer which gives values from 0 to 11.

But as Basil Bourque said in the comments, the preferred way is to get a Month enum object with the LocalDate::getMonth method.

java.util.Date date= new Date();
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);

If you use Java 8 date api, you can directly get it in one line!

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
int month = today.getMonthValue();