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    Americans' favorite season of the year, by age group [OC]
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    Americans’ favorite season of the year, by age group [OC]


    With 40% of respondents stating that Fall was their favorite season in a CivicScience survey of more than 600,000 Americans, autumn was handily America's favorite season overall. But an age comparison shows more nuance: the higher the respondent's age, the more likely they were to answer with 'Spring' and the less likely to respond with 'Summer' or 'Winter.'

    Data Source: CivicScience InsightStore
    Visualization: Infogram

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

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    2. redground on

      Anecdote: When I became an adult I remember appreciating fall colors a lot more. As I keep getting older I’m learning more and more to appreciate spring.

      Oh, and also pretty chart 😀

    3. buckyhermit on

      I’d also be interested in seeing how it differs by region. My US friends think I’m insane for loving summer.

      In my area, summers are pleasant (sunny and dry every day, 20 to 25 degrees) but in my birthplace of Hong Kong, summers are hell (humid and sticky with tropical storms, 30 to 35 degrees).

      I absolutely love the summers in my area but would never want to visit relatives in Hong Kong until autumn to spring.

    5. AFineDayForScience on

      I understand Fall being popular with older age groups, but wtf is with age 25 and under? Winter has snow, Spring has the first comfortable temps and flowers, summer has swimming and school vacation. In fall, school starts and the leaves change.

    6. eaglessoar on

      Wait I assumed everyone’s favorite season was summer. Then again I’m in New England

    8. Kind_Resort_9535 on

      I’ve never understood the people who like autumn. It means the summer is ending and winter is coming. It’s not terrible in itself, but it’s what it signals. Spring the birds come back, the flowers and plants grow. Spring to me is such a better more optimistic time of the year.

    10. GodICringe on

      Interesting data. I definitely have appreciated spring more with age (and after moving out of Florida).

      I would have changed some of these colors around. Maybe it’s just me, but I automatically assumed blue was winter, because I associate it with cold. Maybe make spring green, and winter blue?

    15. scaredycat_z on

      Fall is the prettiest.
      Spring is the funnest
      Winter is good when your a kid, cause winter sports and snowball fights. Even as an adult a nice ski/snowboard day trip is fun.

      Everyone who’s favorite season is summer must not live in a humid, or too hot of a climate. Who the fuck actually likes 90f (32c) degree with 60% relative humidity weather?!?!?

    16. Batgod629 on

      Autumn is great. Cooler weather with humidity dying down. Gorgeous scenery at least up north, though you don’t have to clean up the leaves.

    19. The_Lawn_Ninja on

      Ain’t it just peachy keen that most people’s favorite season is gradually disappearing year after year?

      Won’t be long before we don’t even notice that all the leaves fell in under a week.

    20. miles4pints on

      Summer kid.. but I grew up on a lake and have a summer birthday so I might be biased

    21. moaihead on

      I appreciate the color blind palette, and i wonder if you at anyone else feels that perhaps the colors could match the seasons more. blue for winter, green from spring, yellow for summer, orange for fall. i think i would step your colors back a season.

    23. aasania on

      I live in New England, and I would probably enjoy spring more if it lasted longer than a week.

    24. swiggs313 on

      I live in Florida, and our four seasons—as the compare to the average—are:

      Spring: Everyone else’s summer

      Summer: Surface of the sun hot with some daily breaks for rain.

      Fall: Everyone else’s summer, part 2

      Winter: Usually gorgeous, just a couple weeks of really cold weather.

      Needless to say, winter is my favorite.

    29. SDGollum on

      My favorite is spring. Here in SoCal it is when the sky is clear and the hills are green from our winter’s rain, and it is 70 degrees It is paradise before it turns into summer’s hell.

    30. SpaceNorse2020 on

      Color scheme is awful.

      Also, this varys *wildly* depending on where you live, much of the world doesn’t *have* these four seasons, and even in the places that do they can be very different experiences.

      For example, Southern American winters are great and their summers are hell. Most of the American Southwest doesn’t have the normal four seasons, we’ve got a full on monsoon.

    33. diener1 on

      As somebody who lives relatively far north, I hate how short the days get in winter. That’s why my favourite is spring. It’s when the next winter is the furthest away.