Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, culture, and tradition, but when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.

Contents

• 1 Timing
• 2 Weather
• 3 School break
• 4 Activities
• 5 See also
• 6 References

Noun

summer (plural summers)

1. One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 20 in parts of the USA, and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

   the heat of summer

• Note that season names are usually spelled in all lowercase letters in English. This is contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always spelled with a capitalized first letter, for example Thursday or September.

Summer

Quotes about summer

• And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
  • Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

• I'd like to know if I could compare you to a summer's day. Because -- well, June 12th was quite nice, and...
  • Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

• Logos is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
  • Heraclitus, Fragment 36

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
  • William Shakespeare, The Sonnets, XVIII (18)

• the start of summer is better than christmas and my b day put together.
  • Steve Ablitt

• Summer afternoon— summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
  • Henry James

• The only good things about summer are women's fashions and movies.
  • John Pritchard

• That summer I did nothing/Just sleeping, thinking and hanging around.
  • From the song "Orpheus" by Ash

• Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.
  • Will Smith, "Summertime", Homebase (1991)