Months of the Year Wheel
Spin to select one of the 12 months of the year, each with equal odds. Useful for planning, writing prompts, and playful calendar picks.
Fair by design: each spin draws from your browser’s cryptographic random number generator, giving every entry an equal 1-in-12 chance. No server is involved.
One entry per line. 12 entries on the wheel.
The entries travel in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to a server. Nobody, including us, can read a shared wheel from a log.
Please keep the attribution link on the last line. It is the only thing we ask in return, and it is what pays for the wheel being free.
Months of the Year Wheel at a glance
| Slices | 12 |
|---|---|
| Chance per slice, per spin | 1 in 12 (8.3%) |
| Chance of a given slice in 10 spins | 58.1% |
| Category | Calendar wheels |
| Randomness source | crypto.getRandomValues, tested |
| Last updated |
About the Months of the Year Wheel
This wheel comes pre filled and ready to spin. Give it a whirl as is, or edit the entries in the box to make it your own. Every slice has equal odds, so the result is fair each and every time. When the wheel stops, the pointer at the top marks the winning slice.
Nothing you spin is uploaded anywhere. The Months of the Year Wheel runs entirely in your browser, and you can save your edits to your own device. When you want your visitors to spin the same wheel, copy the embed code under the wheel and drop it onto your page.
A random month is a handy little generator for planners and players alike. Writers spin it to set the season of a scene or to get a prompt like describe a memory from the month it lands on. Teachers use it to pick which month's birthdays get celebrated first or to quiz students on holidays and seasons. Families spin it to schedule who hosts the big dinner, and trivia hosts use it for month themed rounds. It even settles playful arguments about when to take a trip, since twelve equal slices mean no month gets favored, not even summer. The wheel shows the winning month clearly after each spin, so it reads well on a classroom projector. Narrow the list to a school term or a wedding window by editing the entries, and the odds rebalance to the months you keep.
The odds on this wheel
There are 12 slices, all the same size, so a given slice wins one spin with probability 1 ÷ 12 = 8.3%. Every spin is independent of the one before it, which means no result is ever due: after ten spins without a particular slice, the chance on the eleventh is still 8.3%.
Across several spins the maths follows the complement rule. The chance of a given slice coming up at least oncein ten spins is 1 − (1 − 1/12)10 = 58.1%. Edit the entry list and every figure here recomputes, because they are derived from the wheel rather than written down beside it.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Months wheel cover the full calendar year?
Yes, all twelve months from January through December are on the wheel, and each has a 1 in 12 chance of being landed on.
Can I use the Months wheel to pick a random event or party month?
It's a fun way to choose a month for a themed celebration, a trip, or a writing prompt, and you can trim the list down to just the months you're weighing up.
Can I narrow the wheel to a single season?
Sure, keep only the months you want, such as June, July, and August for summer, and the wheel will spin across just those with the odds split evenly between them.
Put this wheel on your own site
One line of HTML. No tracking, no cookies, and it works on any page. The embed code sits under the wheel above, and the embed guide has a copy-paste block for WordPress, Google Sites, Notion, Moodle, Canvas and OBS.
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