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What month is summer usually?

Summer is usually June-August in the solar calendar, also called summer.

, the second of the four seasons, is the hottest season in a year in the northern hemisphere. China is used to taking Long Summer as long summer, and the meteorological summer will be postponed to Long Xia Hou for about 25 days. The ancients counted April, May and June of the lunar calendar as "summer"; Today, people regard June, July and August of the solar calendar as "summer". Westerners generally say that the summer of solstice is divided into summer. The scientific division method is that the average temperature above 22℃ is "summer". Accordingly, when the average temperature keeps below 22℃, summer is over. In the southern hemisphere, 65438+February, 65438+ 10 and February are generally designated as summer.