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The local standard for most of my life was that summer starts around Memorial Day (which is when people start opening their pools) and ends around Labor Day (when people start closing their pools and kids go back to school).

There's an argument to be made that most of June isn't summer because most schools' summer break doesn't start until the end of June, but that might depend on the school (and a lot of colleges will actually end in May, sooo...).

As others have pointed out, it's technically both, since the official start of summer is the 20th/21st. But people usually round that off so that June/July/August is summer, Sep/Oct/Nov is autumn, Dec/Jan/Feb is winter, and March/April/May is spring. Of course, seasons aren't really exactly "equal", and depending on where you live it might seem different to you. For example, for most of my life in New Jersey we've kind of gone directly from summer to winter (and vice-versa) in the span of about a week, and there's the old joke in places like Milwaukee that there's only two seasons - winter and July 12th.