highest ppg in a calendar month by a player in nba history since 1965 minimum 5 games played

Since 1964-65, James Harden has the most points per game when playing 5+ games in a month, with 43.6 per game in January 2019.

	NAME	PPG	GP	MONTH	MPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	OREB	DREB	TPG	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	+/-
1	James Harden J. Harden	43.6	14	January 2019	38.8	8.7	7.6	2.1	1.2	12.8	29.7	43.0	5.6	16.6	33.5	12.4	13.7	90.6	60.9	1.6	7.1	5.5	543	610	122	106	29	17	77	46	+54
2	Kobe Bryant K. Bryant	43.4	13	January 2006	41.6	5.6	4.1	1.8	0.1	13.9	29.6	47.0	3.5	8.9	39.7	12.0	13.4	89.7	61.1	0.5	5.1	3.5	541	564	73	53	23	1	46	39	+50
3	Kobe Bryant K. Bryant	41.6	8	April 2006	39.6	5.5	3.6	2.3	0.0	14.5	28.5	50.9	3.3	7.9	41.3	9.4	11.4	82.4	62.1	1.1	4.4	2.1	317	333	44	29	18	0	17	27	+101
4	Wilt Chamberlain W. Chamberlain	41.6	16	November 1964	47.1	24.9	2.9			17.6	36.1	48.7				6.5	16.0	40.6	48.3				754	666	398	47				34
5	Kobe Bryant K. Bryant	40.6	14	February 2003	41.6	4.9	3.6	2.6	0.9	13.9	29.4	47.2	2.4	5.5	42.9	10.6	12.5	84.6	58.3	0.9	4.1	3.4	583	569	69	50	37	13	48	33	+122
6	Kobe Bryant K. Bryant	40.4	13	March 2007	44.8	6.2	4.5	1.1	0.5	13.7	29.8	45.9	2.7	7.2	37.2	10.3	11.9	86.5	57.5	1.6	4.5	2.8	582	525	80	58	14	6	36	30	-36
7	Joel Embiid J. Embiid	40.2	9	December 2023	33.6	12.6	4.9	1.4	2.1	14.3	23.7	60.6	1.2	2.9	42.3	10.3	11.2	92.1	70.3	2.0	10.6	4.1	302	362	113	44	13	19	37	23	+146
8	Rick Barry R. Barry	39.7	15	February 1967	43.5	8.6	2.9			14.3	32.6	43.8				11.2	12.5	89.4	52.1				653	596	129	43				59
9	James Harden J. Harden	39.5	15	November 2019	36.9	6.4	7.6	1.9	0.5	11.2	24.2	46.3	5.5	14.1	38.9	11.6	13.9	83.7	65.1	0.9	5.5	5.1	553	592	96	114	28	8	77	43	+141
10	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar K. Abdul-Jabbar	39.3	16	February 1972		15.6	5.8			16.0	27.1	59.0				7.3	9.8	74.4	62.5					628	249	93
11	Dominique Wilkins D. Wilkins	39.2	6	April 1986	39.3	7.8	2.3	1.5	0.3	15.0	31.3	47.9	0.0	0.7	0.0	9.2	11.3	80.9	53.9	4.5	3.3	3.0	236	235	47	14	9	2	18	15
12	Rick Barry R. Barry	39.1	7	October 1966	42.4	12.3	3.7			13.1	28.6	46.0				12.9	14.7	87.4	55.8				297	274	86	26				25
13	Michael Jordan M. Jordan	39.0	12	April 1988	41.3	4.5	4.9	3.2	1.1	14.5	25.9	55.9	0.1	1.0	8.3	9.9	11.8	84.4	62.7	1.8	2.8	3.3	495	468	54	59	38	13	40	51
14	Damian Lillard D. Lillard	38.9	7	August 2020	41.3	4.1	9.7	1.6	0.1	11.9	23.6	50.3	6.0	13.1	45.7	9.1	10.1	90.1	69.3	0.4	3.7	3.3	289	272	29	68	11	1	23	12	+16
15	Rick Barry R. Barry	38.7	11	December 1966	43.4	9.6	2.8			14.5	33.5	43.4				9.6	10.6	90.6	50.7				477	426	106	31				31
16	Damian Lillard D. Lillard	38.5	10	February 2023	37.4	5.7	7.0	0.8	0.2	11.5	23.2	49.6	5.0	12.2	41.0	10.5	10.9	96.3	68.8	1.1	4.6	3.2	374	385	57	70	8	2	32	18	+3
17	Michael Jordan M. Jordan	38.4	12	February 1987	41.2	5.4	4.8	3.7	2.4	12.9	27.2	47.5	0.1	0.8	11.1	12.5	14.3	87.7	57.4	1.9	3.5	3.2	494	461	65	58	44	29	38	40
18	Wilt Chamberlain W. Chamberlain	38.4	16	December 1964	45.0	22.4	3.2			16.4	31.9	51.4				5.6	12.8	44.1	51.2				720	614	359	51				33
19	Rick Barry R. Barry	38.3	16	November 1966	40.5	8.8	4.6			14.1	26.9	52.2				10.1	11.4	89.0	59.9				648	612	140	74				54
20	Wilt Chamberlain W. Chamberlain	38.2	16	January 1966	47.1	23.9	4.4			15.7	29.2	53.7				6.8	12.4	54.8	55.1				753	611	382	70				32
21	Dominique Wilkins D. Wilkins	38.2	12	February 1988	39.4	6.3	3.3	1.8	0.8	14.3	29.1	49.3	1.1	2.4	44.8	8.4	10.3	82.1	56.8	2.7	3.7	3.0	473	458	76	40	21	10	36	29
22	Moses Malone M. Malone	38.1	14	February 1982	44.6	17.3	1.9	0.9	1.3	14.1	25.5	55.5	0.0	0.2	0.0	9.9	12.5	78.9	61.5			3.3	624	534	242	26	13	18	46	35
23	Michael Jordan M. Jordan	38.1	9	April 1987	38.4	6.1	6.2	3.0	1.6	13.1	26.0	50.4	0.2	1.2	18.2	11.7	13.7	85.4	59.5	2.4	3.7	2.4	346	343	55	56	27	14	22	27
24	Joel Embiid J. Embiid	37.8	5	April 2022	36.5	14.8	3.4	0.8	1.6	13.2	22.2	59.5	1.6	3.6	44.4	9.8	12.6	77.8	68.1	2.6	12.2	4.0	182	189	74	17	4	8	20	10	+81
25	Nate Archibald N. Archibald	37.7	13	March 1972						13.6						10.5	12.3	85.0						490