YEAR DAX Function in Power BI

The YEAR DAX function returns the year of a date as a four-digit integer in the range 1900-9999.

DAX Syntax YEAR(date)

The parameter date is a date in datetime format, or a text representation of a date.

Example: The following example returns 2007.

DAX

YEAE Measure = YEAR("March 2007")

The output of the above measure, can be shown in the card visual, as shown in the image below:

YEAR dax function in Power BI

Example: Let’s get the year component from the today’s date. For example, the today’ date is 12 Jan 2025.

DAX

YEAR Measure = YEAR(TODAY())

The output of the above measure, can be shown in the card visual, as shown in the image below:

YEAR dax function in Power BI

Example: Create a Calculated Column.

DAX

Year Column = YEAR('Sheet1'[Date of Birth])

The output of the above code is shown below:

YEAR dax function in Power BI