Introduction In this article, we are going to see how you can map a java.time.YearMonth with both JPA and Hibernate. As I explained in this article, JPA 2.2 supports the following Date/Time types introduced in Java 8: java.time.LocalDate java.time.LocalTime java.time.LocalDateTime java.time.OffsetTime java.time.OffsetDateTime Apart from supporting those, Hibernate supports also: java.time.Duration java.time.Instant java.time.ZonedDateTime However, neither JPA nor Hibernate support the java.time.YearMonth out-of-the-box. As you will see, adding support for java.time.YearMonth is really straightforward for both standard JPA or Hibernate.