# \$1dayOfMonth
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The `$dayOfMonth` aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB retrieves the day of the month (from 1 to 31) for a given date. This operator is useful for grouping, filtering, or extracting the day of the month from date fields in your documents.

**Parameters**
+ `date expression`: The date expression can be a date field from the document, a date object, or a date string.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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This example demonstrates how to use the `$dayOfMonth` operator to extract the day of the month from a date field in the document.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.events.insertMany([
  { _id: 1, eventDate: new Date("2022-01-15T12:00:00Z") },
  { _id: 2, eventDate: new Date("2022-02-28T15:30:00Z") },
  { _id: 3, eventDate: new Date("2022-03-01T09:45:00Z") },
  { _id: 4, eventDate: new Date("2022-04-30T23:59:59Z") }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.events.aggregate([
  { $project: {
    eventDay: { $dayOfMonth: "$eventDate" }
  }}
])
```

**Output**

```
[
  { "_id" : 1, "eventDay" : 15 },
  { "_id" : 2, "eventDay" : 28 },
  { "_id" : 3, "eventDay" : 1 },
  { "_id" : 4, "eventDay" : 30 }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$dayOfMonth` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const events = db.collection('events');

  const result = await events.aggregate([
    { $project: {
      eventDay: { $dayOfMonth: "$eventDate" }
    }}
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);
  await client.close();
}

example();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client.mydatabase
    events = db.events

    result = list(events.aggregate([
        { "$project": {
            "eventDay": { "$dayOfMonth": "$eventDate" }
        }}
    ]))

    print(result)
    client.close()

example()
```

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