The CivicScience survey numbers are in, and it turns out that Michiganders just barely beat out Alaskans as the state residents who love the summer season the most. On the other end of the spectrum, the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas had the lowest percentage of residents who prefer summer. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Florida had the highest percentage of summer-lovers south of Virginia (excluding Hawaii).

Data Source: CivicScience InsightStore
Visualization: Infogram

Related CivicScience survey: Which season is your \least* favorite?* Answer here on our free polling site.

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37 comments

  1. Ah yes, self-referential morality system… I like the things that benefit me… 

  2. My part of California hates summer. 150 miles west, they love summer and we vacation there.

  3. I’m honestly shocked that 36% is the high end. I feel like at least half of anyone you ask will say summer

  4. Makes sense NY is one of the highest. You don’t see the sun from November-Early March. It gets to people.

  5. Florida summer is beautiful if you do it right. That means spending your days by and in water

  6. Summer hating #1 Louisiana here … It’s basically just trying to get from one air conditioned space to another as quickly as possible. Sandwiched between our awesome crawfish season and football season and opposed to our incredibly mild winter…. Good thing global warming is a myth.

  7. Who in the living fuck is enjoying summer in Texas that much. Are schoolchildren included??

  10. For me in SoCal its a tough call to say which is the best season. Summers are fine but too many tourists and kids at the beach make it a bit hectic

  12. As an Ohioan I’d just like to throw my hat in the ring and say fuck summer. Almost the same humidity as Florida up here with similar rainfall to Seattle. Give me Fall.

  13. AR/MS/LA got that fuckin swamp ass humidity weather. I’ll take 115F with low humidity over 90F and 80% humidity all damn DAY

  14. I’m honestly surprised the Great Lakes and NE don’t hit 50%+

  15. Michigan is spectacular all year. Summers are magical. The bugs don’t have all year to fester. You are always within an hour of cool, clean freshwater lakes.
    How many of you have seen a freshwater lake that goes all the way to the horizon?!
    P.s. no sharks.

  16. This would also just kinda be a temperature map of the US, no? Places where it’s colder like summer where the temperature difference is likely to make it more moderate.

  17. A couple northern states are not quite as enthused as their peers.

    Perhaps Montanans dislike the tourists.

    And I think we Minnesotans take pride in embracing the winter.

  18. As someone who lives in one of the lowest % states, I try to spend at least one month out of the summer visiting the a few of the highest % states.

  19. I’m curious how many people like summer because they associate it with their youth. Summer in Southern California absolutely sucks if you don’t easily have access to a body of water (beach, pool). Couple that with soaring electric bills. Give me a California winter.

  20. I’m curious about Texas because what other season is there?

    I know they’re not saying they like winter. And I know they don’t know what spring and fall even are…

  21. Massachusetts be like”we only like other states in summer. Not ours”

  22. Nevada and Arizona seem surprisingly high, but maybe it’s mostly people outside Vegas and Phoenix with this opinion.

  24. Southern Florida man here- I love the weather year round and there’s different reasons to love it. Summer brings the afternoon storms like clockwork, which are nice and relaxing to listen to.

    Edit: to add, Florida “winter” brings nice days to be out and about and cool evenings. Which are nice to. Point is, I’ve lived in New England for a couple years and I will always and forever take the Florida summer heat over a New England winter again.

  25. This is a cool visualisation, but I wonder if it might be better to use a diverging color scale and “deviation from “expected” percentage (i.e. this would be 25% if everyone chose each season equally)

  26. Interesting that the scale tops out at 36%. Even if 0% of Michiganders liked winter best, that would mean summer is basically even with spring and fall, and not any kind of breakout favorite.  if the other seasons were evenly split at 21%ish, summer would stand out the most but not even be 2x as popular as winter.

    Fun counterpoint to the “everybody knows that everybody hates cold/cloudy weather and loves warm/sunny weather” narrative.

  27. I was about to say I’m surprised the percentages are so low in the northeast. Then I remembered Autumn is pretty fucking spectacular around here.

  28. Nobody in the south likes summer. We’ll give you spring but that’s it.

  29. Honestly, the effect size is a lot smaller than I would have expected. Summer in North Carolina is really unpleasant and yet almost a quarter of people still think it’s their favorite season???! I suppose it is still associated with summer vacations and delicious produce.

  30. I’m fully convinced people only like summer because of the nostalgia from school. I don’t even live in the South and I can’t stand this hellish season.

    90+ degrees, high humidity, mosquitoes like crazy, constant sweating while outside, WHAT A FUN TIME

  31. As someone from Nevada, I’m surprised ee arent further down the list.

    Today is the coolest day we’ve had since like early April at 88° today. It’s supposed to be back up to 102° and higher by Friday.

    We had a day either last summer or maybe the year before that that hit 122°. Hottest day on record here. My skin hurts just thinking about it still. Felt like being slow cooked.

  32. WA born and raised, some of my friends hate summer which is insane to me. We have some of the nicest, most pleasant summers of anywhere in the country in Western WA.

    It’s going to be 72° and sunny on the 4th. That’s about perfect in my book, maybe could be a touch warmer.

  33. Lifelong floridian. The area I live in is like walking through soup from April to early November.

    Can’t wait to be gone from this shithole. I’ve had enough summer for a lifetime.

  34. I get it.

    “why do people in florida like summer? Isn’t it hot as shit and wracked by hurricanes?”

    Yeah. Still better than being around all the snowbird boomers.

  35. Why would you use the actual boundaries for Great Lakes States like Minnesota and Wisconsin but not Michigan?

  37. “People in generally cold States love it when the temperature becomes more favorable” – why, yes, they do. I imagine Summers there tend to be more pleasant.

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