Pandas series sort by month index

Answer 1

You can use sorted CategoricalIndex with sort_index:

cats = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr','May','Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug','Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
df.index = pd.CategoricalIndex(df.index, categories=cats, ordered=True)
df = df.sort_index()

print (df)
     date
Jan     2
Feb     1
Apr     1
May     1
Jun     1
Jul     1
Aug     2
Sep     2
Oct    14
Nov    36
Dec    47

Or use DataFrame.reindex - but if some value is missing add NaNs rows:

df = df.reindex(cats)