this (entered as cntl-shift-enter) allows you to get the date of the max
in a specified month (the =1 indicated Jan)

=OFFSET(A4,MATCH(IF(MONTH(A5:A10)=1,MAX(B5:B10)),B 5:B10,0),0)


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