Maya looked out the window at the budding trees. "So the real answer is… it depends?"
Her grandmother nodded. "The real answer is that spring is the time when the world wakes up. But if someone asks you for the months, you can tell them: in most of the Northern Hemisphere, it’s . In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s September, October, and November ." which months are in spring
In a small town nestled between rolling hills, a curious young girl named Maya asked her grandmother one crisp evening, "Grandma, when does spring truly begin?" Maya looked out the window at the budding trees
She took down the calendar and opened it to the first page. "Let me show you the two main ways people decide the spring months." "In many places, especially in North America and Europe, we follow the astronomical seasons. These are based on the position of the Earth as it travels around the sun," Grandma explained. But if someone asks you for the months,
Maya smiled, now ready to share the story of spring with anyone who asked.
"No," her grandmother laughed. "In the Southern Hemisphere—countries like Australia, Brazil, and Argentina—the seasons are reversed. When we have spring, they have autumn."