What season is July in Australia?
As Australia belongs to the Temperate climate zone, it has a Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring seasonal pattern. These seasons may be described in terms of European seasons applied to the southern hemisphere in the following sequence:
Summer: December to February
Autumn: March to May
Winter: June to August
Spring: September to November
More Info:
www.australia.gov.au
What are your thoughts on this subject?
82 Comments
Jennifer Dyster
Four seasons works for temperate zone but not for parts of Australia north of the Tropic of Capricorn. In Darwin there are two seasons referred to by the Media The Wet and the Dry. Indigenous people refer to 6 seasons:Banggarreng, Yegge, Wurrgeng, Gurrung, Gunumeleng and Gudjeuk.
Rob Farr
Don't both Northern and Southern Hemispheres have the same sequence of seasons ... Summer-Autumn-Winter-Spring ? I couldn't understand why being in a Temperate climate zone would mean that we didn't share the same seasons & in the same order as the rest of the world. It's just that we have our Summer when those in the Northern Hemisphere are having their Winter ... but Spring follows Winter in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres, no matter what Climate Zone you are in. A cute trivia question still ... thanks.
Sue Grayson
John Kalugyer No it's not wrong, I live here I should know! Its winter. June, July, August are winter. Nothing to do with the solstices. And it's not Fall here, it's Autumn. It's Australia. Not America. Check the facts!
Melanie Morel
Lucky Australians - having only three months of winter, unlike our six here in Canada.
Player
There was a story in my grade 4 reader called, Christmas in July. It was about Australia.
Micheline Ratcliffe
I live in Qld and quite frankly seasons are not as obvious ... we do get a cold spell for about 3 weeks in June/July the rest of the year is warm to to hot.
Bank-Robber
Maybe that's where Christmas in July came from!!!
Vincent
In New Caledonia, near Australia and where my wife is coming from, we do not say winter but fresh season. It is more representative to the reality of the temperatures.
Chris Brown
In New Zealand too.
Armadillo
Bewley Steve, maybe one day.
Susanne
Jenny Devereaux, Yes fall is called autumn in Aust.
Gail Cusack
Easy for a Kiwi😊
Player
Jennifer Dyster, same applies to a lot of the southern hemisphere. They just don't have the same temperate northern hemisphere seasons.
joycekingsmith
Good info. Thank you, Corey.
Rob Farr
Jennifer Dyster, Yes ... in Darwin and places of a similar latitude, we speak of two seasons - hot and wet and hot and dry.
Irene Townsend
dsneed, When is your Summer, July and August, so the other side of the world the Winter is July and August.
Irene Townsend
Of course the same as New Zealand and opposite from England and America.
Godfather
Same as South Africa
galambos
got it. I have visited there.