To think that August is actually the crappiest month of the year?

[SummersOverSeasideTown]

If you live in England anyway.

Full month of school holidays but invariably much worse weather than June and July, combined with the fact it is noticeable that the nights are drawing in.
Combined with the pressure to make the summer holiday memories and the expense of doing so.

Mix in the back to school shopping (and the amount that sets you back) and the failure of any retailer to stock enough items, and then trying to find, amongst the small selection, shoes that are black and polishable and have no logo AND that a teenager is prepared to wear.

Then the realisation of what is coming -the school runs in worsening weather, the homework onslaught, the extra curricular, the extra washing, the dark nights but all combined in a month which is meant to be joyful.

Give me January any day!

@Dobbyhasnomaster

Oh I love August because it’s leading into Autumn and ‘Good Winter’ (before Christmas), and there’s lots of exciting things happening. I love it when it starts to cool and you can get a proper duvet on and get all snuggly inside! Bad Winter (Jan - March) is always the worst three months of my year…

Yes to ‘good winter’ I should like august because it’s my birthday month but I’m just ready for autumn this year. Usually because there’s a nice Indian summer in September which is much more tolerable than the midsummer heatwaves

I'm a teacher with no children of my own.
I like August - a lot.

I want to love august. I want it to be got and carefree and relaxed and fun but it's not. It's expensive and rainy and I can feel Autumn lurking, it makes me sad.
May, june, July are the best.
January to march are just miserable though.

Hate February. It’s STILL winter. No Christmas. No New Years and ‘fresh start’ feeling. March has clocks going forward and start of spring…November/December have Christmas lights, preparations.

My Birthday is in August and the weather is always rubbish. And everyone is always on holiday so forgets about about it too.

Oh wow. You’ve just summed up my (unconscious) feelings. I assumed i’d always loved August as it was ‘part’ of summer, but it’s so not. Awful feeling of impending dread of approaching winter.

I thought June and July were too hot? Is it just me?
And august weather with +20 perfect

It's a good enough argument for a YANBU vote from me although November (6th onwards) and January are first in line for the dustbin.

August seems to get stuck in nature (like January) and a crappier August like this one can feel prematurely into autumn after very few summer highlights. On English holiday dates, there isn't much choice to go away from August. Easter can be too early in the holiday season and quite cold. May half term is good, but short which limits it, October half term in the dying days of the tourist season. UK holidays (especially if camping) can be ropey and many typical foreign destinations too hot. August heat is often unpleasantly humid too and the drier heat of early summer is more comfortable.

It's not THE worst, but it is the worst of the summer months.

The precursor to the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

A holiday month with fruits ripening. Glorious. Although I grant you the nights draw in and the mornings start nipping sometimes

I liked August when I was a child, it meant I didn't have to go to school. Some of August has nice weather, it's patchy but we've had some good days recently and will again. September when school starts again is usually quite fine.

The laundry was no different for me, except for different things in the wash basket; if anything there was more quantity in the holidays

We always took our summer holiday away in July when I agree the weather is generally warmer and sunnier but you can still have a good time when it is not so fine. Kids amuse themselves well enough with their friends. As they get older of course, parents never know what they will be coming home to but you get used to that. It doesn't last forever, I miss those times.

February is shit.

Like January, but with grey, dark, cold, unpredictable weather and no sign of life until the very end.

100% OP. It’s my birthday month and always been a bit of a washout. Weather always shit, I’m getting old and I’m still not skinny by the end of summer 😫😫

Months in order of preference for me

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

Goodness November and January are miserable in the UK

I have end of summer blues from basically 10th August. In my teens/early twenties summer seemed to last forever in the words of Bryan Adams, usually rounded off with a music festival in the last week of August, the straight back to college/uni, new pens, new mates.

Now I am hyper sensitive to the encroaching dark nights, my DS going off to uni makes me feel happy-sad, work is fucking endless, winter (I am NHS) is likely to be all colours of shite. No holiday or proper switch off this year.

I'm going to try and make this autumn an exercise in hygge, and try harder to do anything other than work late and/or go to bed early. I'm going to start some good shows and get some lovely skandinavisk candles. I'm going to eat lovely hearty meals and put the fire on, and have walks every weekend (when its not pissing rain). By the end of September I will have reached 'acceptance' on the change curve.

August is still not in my bottom two. I offer you January and November. I am going to run for government on a 'revert to the Roman calendar' ticket, only I'm dumping months 1 and 11.

@Dobbyhasnomaster

Oh I love August because it’s leading into Autumn and ‘Good Winter’ (before Christmas), and there’s lots of exciting things happening. I love it when it starts to cool and you can get a proper duvet on and get all snuggly inside! Bad Winter (Jan - March) is always the worst three months of my year…

This! I love good winter too!! I could hibernate New Year's Day to Easter!!

I'm totally feeling the melancholy and depressing thoughts about impending autumn and summer dying. Don't feel like we've had much of a stretch of glorious summer days and warm light evenings to speak of this year, and now it's already hoodie weather. The forecast for the whole of the next week is grey.
I still remember the beautiful stretch of bright sunshine we had last spring, which made up for it. This year has just been so meh.
I've always found Sundays and end of summers hard though.
I still voted YABU because I hate November, Jan and Feb much much more.

Yep, especially this year.

And September always seems to be nice just as the kids go back to school 😒

Oh yes. One really bad thing about August which adds more weight to OP's argument. All the bloody wasps.

YANBU i much prefer June and July! I'm actually now wishing August away and looking forward to the cosy winter months.

Nights getting cooler starting to think of cosy autumn things, Christmas saving as well started now.

I dislike Summer so actually really like August as it's nearly Autumn.

I also hate January too...such a depressing month after all celebrations over.

June and July were lovely and it's only been the last few days that haven't been great. Grey doesn't mean you can't get out and do things. I love spending time with the kids!

I do see what people mean when they say it's the worst of the summer months and the impending doom of Autumn.

I have SAD and I hate winter. I have 5 children and Xmas is a bloody effort!!!!!

Agree the weather tends to be better in June / July; school holidays should be brought forward by 4 weeks IMO. But Jan-Mar are much, much worse: darkness, cold, drizzle, mud everywhere, no bird song or flowers.

I love May for the same reason I love Christmas Eve. It’s all ahead. August is like Sunday and I don’t love either. But better than Monday/January!