When does summer actually end?
Does summer officially end at the end of the month when the clock strikes midnight? Does it end after Labour Day weekend, the official indicator for some? Or is it when the weather literally feels like fall and we start to slightly shiver? (Or when pumpkin spice drinks make their annual return?)
The shift between seasons is quite the blurred line, so we polled fellow Vancouverites on when they feel summer officially ends.
Just over half of those who voted, which was nearly 53 per cent, felt that summer ends a few weeks into September. That means they're in for an extra long summer this year, as the fall forecast says that summer is two weeks behind.
Meanwhile, 30 per cent of voters said that once Labour Day is over, so is summer. For 10 per cent of voters, summer ends at the end of August and the rest of voters don't pay attention to the changing seasons.
The poll ran from 8/23/2022 to 9/10/2022. Of the 736 votes, we can determine that 415 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.61%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
