Memory Hook: Which months have 31 days?

My teacher gave us a little trick when I was at school: You can easily read that information from your hands respectively out of the joints of your fingers.

You start at the little finger of your left hand with January on the top of the joint. This is a long month, January has 31 days. Then you tap in the space between the joint of the little finger and the finger next to it. The gap stands for a short month, in this case February.

Now you can always go on, March is long, April is short, May is long, June is short, and with the long July the hand ends. Now you start again, August is again long, September short, October long, November short and December long again.

Here is a list of all months:

1. January: 31 days
2. February: 28 or 29 days
3. March: 31 days
4. April: 30 days
5. Mai: 31 days
6. Juni: 30 days
7. July: 31 days
8. August: 31 days
9. September: 30 days
10. October: 31 days
11. November: 30 days
12. December: 31 days

Incidentally, for a long time, I had to count the months on my fingers every time. However, the more and more often I had to do with months, the more I just remembered the months directly without any help. At some point I just knew it, that just happened.
Last update on 2021-05-12 | Created on 2018-03-13