FORMULA & SQL / DATES

Quarter from a date.
Tested, not guessed.

The Excel and Google Sheets formula and the SQL query, each run on the rows below. Open this with your own data ↗

The example rows

Row	A: Region	B: Rep	C: Amount	D: Order Date	E: Status	F: Customer
2	North	Ana	1,200	2026-03-01	Paid	Jo Smith
3	South	Ben	450	2026-03-15	Open	Raj Patel
4	North	Cy	300	2026-04-02	Paid	Lee Wong
5	East	Ana	980.50	2026-04-20	Paid	Mia Ross
6	North	Ben	75	2026-05-05	Open	Jo Smith
7	West	Dee	1,640	2026-05-18	Paid	Sam Okoro

Excel

="Q"&ROUNDUP(MONTH(D2)/3,0)

"Q" joined with ROUNDUP(the month of Order Date (D2) divided by 3, 0) — which rounds up.

Run on the example rows:

PostgreSQL

SELECT *, EXTRACT(QUARTER FROM order_date) AS quarter_number
FROM sales

Other databases

MySQL

SELECT *, QUARTER(order_date) AS quarter_number
FROM sales

SQL Server

SELECT *, DATEPART(quarter, order_date) AS quarter_number
FROM sales

SQLite

SELECT *, (CAST(strftime('%m', order_date) AS INTEGER) + 2) / 3 AS quarter_number
FROM sales

BigQuery

SELECT *, EXTRACT(QUARTER FROM order_date) AS quarter_number
FROM sales

Snowflake

SELECT *, QUARTER(order_date) AS quarter_number
FROM sales

Paste your rows into the free tool and it writes this for your columns, then runs it on your data before you copy it. Open the tool ↗