Fiscal Quarter Calculator
Find which fiscal or calendar quarter a date falls in.
Which quarter is it
Businesses divide the year into four quarters for reporting and planning, and knowing which quarter a date falls in is routine in finance and business. This finds the quarter for any date, for the calendar year or a custom fiscal year.
Enter a date to find its quarter.
Calendar versus fiscal quarters
The calendar quarters are simple — the year split into four three-month blocks starting in January. The complication is that many organisations use a fiscal year that does not start in January, so their quarters are offset from the calendar ones; a company whose financial year starts in a different month has its first quarter beginning then, not on the first of January. This is why the same date can be in different quarters depending on whose fiscal calendar you mean, a genuine source of confusion when coordinating across organisations. Quarters matter because so much of business runs on them — earnings are reported quarterly, targets and budgets are set by quarter, and performance is reviewed against them — so knowing which quarter a date belongs to, under the relevant calendar, is a constant small need in the business world.
Common questions
What are the calendar quarters?
The year split into four three-month blocks starting in January — so the first quarter is January to March, and so on.
Why might a date be in a different quarter for a company?
Because many organisations use a fiscal year not starting in January, so their quarters are offset from the calendar ones — the same date can differ by whose calendar you mean.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The calculation happens in your browser.