Creating a DataFrame by passing a NumPy array, with a datetime index and labeled columns: In [5]: dates = pd . date_range ( "20130101" , periods = 6 ) In [6]: dates Out[6]: DatetimeIndex(['2013-01-01', '2013-01-02', '2013-01-03', '2013-01-04', '2013-01-05', '2013-01-06'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='D') In [7]: df = pd . DataFrame ( np . random . randn ( 6 , 4 ), index = dates , columns = list ( "ABCD" )) In [8]: df Out[8]: A B C D 2013-01-01 0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632 2013-01-02 1.212112 -0.173215 0.119209 -1.044236 2013-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929 1.071804 2013-01-04 0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575 0.271860 2013-01-05 -0.424972 0.567020 0.276232 -1.087401 2013-01-06 -0.673690 0.113648 -1.478427 0.524988