What are your favourite and least favourite months of the year ?

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My favourite is April. Spring is properly established (Beasts from the East notwithstanding), the days are noticeably longer and brighter, daffodils and tree blossom abound, it's often when Easter falls and there's the promise of May and June to come.

Conversely, November is just miserable. Increasingly darker days, chilly, bare trees, the smell of decay from rotting leaves and flowers, mud. Yuck. Nothing good about November at all.

Obviously, folk in the southern hemisphere may disagree !

January birthday - love it. All of the presents and drinking but none of the stress of December. Dark, cosy possible snow days, you know where you are with the weather. Plus light is coming back.

I am not a fan of any month that over promises ( looking at you crisp autumn days October - reality rain, too cold, too warm and the clocks go back).

I like June. Usually hot, lots of summer left, longest days.

I love December, it’s a whole month of cheeriness, family, feasting and fun.

I hate January and February, Christmas is over, skint, miserable weather and the anniversaries of both my parents deaths.

Months in order, best to worst:

June, July
May, August
September
April
March
October
November, December, January, February

I loathe, hate, detest winter. I hate having to layer up, wear thick coats, socks and boots. I hate driving to and from work in the dark and bad weather. I hate the extra traffic winter brings. IMO there is absolutely nothing redeeming about winter. Christmas and New Year depress me, and I don't give a fig about Halloween or bonfire night.

However, I love summer. I love the long, light evenings when I can potter in the garden. I love gardening and just being outside in the fresh air. I walk, run and cycle more in the summer so I am fitter and healthier. I adored last summer (but I don't live in London, which must have been grim in that heat). I loved being able to just wear undies and a dress most days. I loved being able to line dry all my washing. I also managed to wash all the soft furnishings in the house for the first time ever.

I can now see the eveningings getting lighter and my heart is lifting in anticipation of spring and summer.

i love october still can have lovely sunshine leaves are gorgeous colours really nice month
cant stand february dreary miserable month everyone flapping about valentines day getting miserable if they are single wet weather snow yukky month glad its a short month

Spring for me. Daffodils, busy lambing, new life with leaves on the trees etc. Also like October with the nights drawing in, smell of coal fire in the air. Least is January, cash isnt there after Christmas, lots of feeding to do through Winter really but love winter walks and rainy/windy nights.

I like April -September. Not so keen on October -March apart from Xmas.

I used tthis love April, but we lost my loveky dad last April, so it doesn’t feel like a happy month at the mo. I’ll fast forward to May this year, longer days and the hope of some sunshine

Worst month, I don’t really have one, I used to dread the onset of winter, but now I have.a 5yo, who approaches everything with such enthusiasm, especially Christmas, it kind of rubs off on me!

I don't have a favourite. I love the summer months - I love actually being warm (I'm always cold), love the long light days, bbqs. I love spring where all the pastel colours come into the shops and the promise of warm weather, Easter (the excuse to eat shit loads of chocolate). September is my birthday month so I enjoy that.

October when the leaves turn brown, I love the colours of nature, all the oranges and brown, nights starting to draw in and lighting candles, getting all cozy. I love Halloween (again excuse to eat shit loads of sweets).

I love November for the same reasons as October and I'm a saddo that starts getting excited for Christmas.

I love Christmas - I'm like a big child! Love the big build up, decorations, Christmas shopping, the anticipation of waiting for Santa with the DC, again the excuse to eat shit loads of treats (are you sensing a theme?)

The only month that can fuck off for me is January! Cold, dark, skint, all the happiness of Christmas is over and it drags. Thank Christ it is over with!

February is still a bit crap but we have the excitement of a few family birthdays and there's pancake day. Although we don't really get anything for Valentine's Day we do tend to get a nice M&S meal, which is nice.

Best; it's hard to choose between September and January.
September as the weather cools down and I can sleep again, children go back to school and things go back to normal.
January as Christmas is finally over-why does it go on so fucking long and again things can go back to normal.
Worst is certainly December ( poor December, I would love it if it weren't for the Christmas takeover) with June and July coming up behind.

January. Mud brown everywhere. Wet weather and dank grey skies. I hate November for the same reasons but I hate the sludge of leaves on the ground. But Christmas is soon.

June, July and August. Warm, sunny and green. Although the weather in August can sometimes be wet. I go on holiday in August.

I like March/April as it gets sunnier and brighter. Also like August - birthday month! And December obviously!

Dislike January and May - irrational dislike for May, no idea why.

Best - April. Son’s birthday, nearly my birthday, and the start of months of light nights.

Worst by a mile - January. Just shit and goes on forever.

I love the starts of seasons. So April/May and October because they seem like the start of warmer weather and cooler weather.

I dislike August and March. August is usually wet, mild and dreary. The nights start pulling in, everything is tired and fed up.in the garden, all the veg is grown and ready for picking but looking fed up, everything seems fed up of summer.

March is dreary as well. We don't usually have dramatic weather, I don't trust mild days and am usually sick to the back teeth of mud.

Favourite: September
Least favourite: February

I hate November until the end of February. I can never comprehend why people like to be wrapped in layers and snuggling under blankets. I also hate dark nights. My sun lamp and a big dose of Vitamin D only barely see me though those shitty months.

I love from March until the end of October, lighter nights and slightly warmer weather suit me much better than cold dark dismal nights.

Love early spring when magnolia flowers, but my favourite is early September. Beautiful light, the smell of change, and the colours just starting to change,

I love June, with the long summer evenings, the scent of flowers and mown grass in the air, the promise of a long summer, and the chance to get my sausage legs out of trousers and hidden under floating maxi dresses that make me look a stone lighter.

Next best is September. I love the turning of the seasons, the crisp, smoky air, walking in the woods and heath as the leaves turn gold, and that feeling of a new beginning, as it's the start of the academic year.

I love December too - candlelight and firelight, carols and cooking and all the advent activity.

I like April, bluebells and Easter and roast lamb but it doesn't uplift me like the summer and autumn months do.

Was discussing this with my other half just two days ago - she loves the Spring esp. April and May. Loves Easter and the whole idea of rebirth. For some reason (that I just don't understand) I really don't like March or April and Spring is my least favourite season.

October is my favourite month and Autumn my favourite season - love the clocks going back, the evenings drawing in, cosy nights in, the changing colours of the leaves, and long autumn walks. Love October through to beginning of January. Halloween, bonfire night, Christmas and New Year. Love being able to cover up - boots, leggings, winter skirts, hats, gloves, warm coats.

September, because the heat has gone and I feel that the academic year is a proper point in time, unlike the arbitrary January 1st, with its nasty gloom and no money.

Worst is July. Insanely hot, shouty families at a loss to entertain themselves, the eyewatering stench of truckstops.

January isn't doing so well. At least then, Christmas is out of the way and the days are slowly but surely lengthening. I concede, it is cold. November is chilly and there's still all the crapness of Christmas to come along with still-darkening days. I'll take January over November, all things considered.

I love Spring - "Earth's immeasurable surprise" as Larkin called it - so April/May are my favourites

Favourite, probably May. Usually warmer, but not too hot.
Least favourite, January. It seems to go on forever!

September is my favourite months, I love the start of autumn and it's my dc's birthdays.

I don't like January, bleak and cold.

Favourite is a close call between October and November. The light, the sunsets, the colours, the chill in the air, the start of the Christmas build up, Bonfire Night, Hallowe'en. Nothing beats it.

My least favourite is probably June. Too hot, tired from work (teacher), everyone going on holiday and me just being jealous, plus I'm better at cooking winter warmer meals than summer salads etc.

March & September favourites.
December & January least.