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How to Filter by Month in Power BI

Updated on:
May 12, 2026
By:
Madhav Bhandari
Use this interactive demo to learn how to add a month slicer filter to your Power BI report.

Quick summary

This tutorial shows how to filter by month in Power BI using a Slicer visual connected to a date field. Once configured, all report visualizations update automatically based on the selected month.


Steps

  1. Open Power BI Desktop and navigate to the report where you want to implement month filtering.
  2. In the Visualizations pane on the right side, locate and click the Slicer visual icon to add a new slicer to your report.
  3. Find your date field in the Fields pane and drag it into the empty slicer you created to set up the month filter.
  4. Under the Date field, select Month to configure the slicer to filter by month.
  5. Select specific months in the slicer — all visualizations will update automatically to display only data from the selected month or months.

📌 Why this matters

Filtering by month in Power BI is a foundational skill for any data analyst who needs to perform time-based analysis on business reports. Using a Slicer visual linked to a date field lets users dynamically isolate monthly data without modifying the underlying dataset. This approach keeps all connected visualizations in sync, ensuring consistent and accurate reporting across dashboards. Mastering month-level filtering in Power BI helps teams make faster, more informed decisions from their data.
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