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Technically summer doesn't start until June 21.

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Where? May-early June is peak summer in India. Schools actually start early to mid June.

We consider April May as peak summer down south. School starts on May end June beginning.

Summer solstice? That's midsummer, not the start of summer.

At least in Europe the summer solstice is regarded as the beginning of summer. It takes months for the land and water bodies to warm up, so this definition makes the seasons line up with temperatures observed in Europe. Depending on geography it might make less sense elsewhere, just as not every place has four seasons.

> At least in Europe the summer solstice is regarded as the beginning of summer.

I think in Europe it's called midsummer - middle of summer. That's what Wikipedia says as well.

> Traditionally, in many temperate regions (especially Europe), the summer solstice is seen as the middle of summer and referred to as "midsummer".

At least in my experience the summer solstice is called midsummer, but is not (any more?) regarded as the middle of summer. According to [1] summer is commonly seen as beginning in June, with the exact date varying between the first, the 21st, the day of the summer solstice (20th/21st) or the end of May. [2] gives some insight into the mechanism causing this definition of the seasons.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer#Summer_timing

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_lag

Where? In most of India summer starts after Holi. So late March

That's the western definition of summer. In some cultures (not sure about India), solstice is the middle of summer.

In India, by summer solstice, large parts of the country are already under the sway of Monsoon rains. And so technically, the peak of summer is past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon

Not even Western in general. In New Zealand summer starts three weeks before the solstice, on December 1. Each season is three full calendar months.

It's not about culture alone, rather also about the weather patterns. In India, monsoon is the major climactic event around then. So it's not spring-summer-autumn-winter in India (in most part of the country), rather, it is summer-monsoon-winter

You're being provincial.

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