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Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are the longest and darkness hours are the shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.
The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's ...
For many, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, but the season does not technically begin for another month after the holiday.
Xiàzhì or Geshi (Chinese and Japanese: 夏至; Korean: 하지(Haji); Vietnamese: Hạ chí; lit. summer's extreme) is the 10th solar term, and marks the summer solstice. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 90° (around 21 June) and ends when the Sun reaches the longitude of 105° (around 7 July).
While this seems like a good marker of seasons, the reason for summer's official dates is a bit more interesting. The last day of summer is determined by the September or autumn equinox, which ...
The summer solstice marks the first day of the summer season. In the northern hemisphere, the 2023 summer solstice begins on Wednesday, June 21.
In the tropics, where seasonal dates also vary, it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season. For example, in Nicaragua the dry season (November to April) is called "summer" and the rainy season (May to October) is called "winter", even though it is located in the northern hemisphere.
Summer runs from June to September, and a variety of fruits and vegetables reach the peak of their growing season during these warm weather months. What may be available to you locally depends on ...