I am populating a select menu with getJSON. I am wondering if there's a way that I can use jQuery's .each function to bring in these values?

Surely there must be an easier way to accomplish this...maybe?

PHP file:

<?php
    $queryMonth = "SELECT monthID, month FROM months";
    $result = $db->query($queryMonth);

      while($rowMonth = $db->fetch_assoc($result)) :
        $data[] = $rowMonth;
      endwhile;

    echo json_encode($data);
?>

The jQuery:

    $.getJSON('selectMenus.php', function(data){
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[0].monthID + ">" + data[0].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[1].monthID + ">" + data[1].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[2].monthID + ">" + data[2].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[3].monthID + ">" + data[3].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[4].monthID + ">" + data[4].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[5].monthID + ">" + data[5].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[6].monthID + ">" + data[6].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[7].monthID + ">" + data[7].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[8].monthID + ">" + data[8].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[9].monthID + ">" + data[9].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[10].monthID + ">" + data[10].month + "</option>"); 
        $("select.month").append("<option value=" + data[11].monthID + ">" + data[11].month + "</option>"); 
    });

my json output looks like this:

[{"monthID":"1","month":"January"},{"monthID":"2","month":"February"},{"monthID":"3","month":"March"},{"monthID":"4","month":"April"},{"monthID":"5","month":"May"},{"monthID":"6","month":"June"},{"monthID":"7","month":"July"},{"monthID":"8","month":"August"},{"monthID":"9","month":"Septemeber"},{"monthID":"10","month":"October"},{"monthID":"11","month":"November"},{"monthID":"12","month":"December"}]