Season Name Generator
Invented seasons, solar terms, and calendar names
Generate season names for fantasy calendars and worldbuilding, drawn from real seasonal traditions: Chinese solar terms, Japanese sekki, the Wheel of the Year, Hindu ritu, Noongar seasons, and full-moon names.
About season names
Real cultures have never agreed that a year has four seasons. The Hindu calendar counts six ritu (Vasanta, Grishma, Varsha, Sharad, Hemanta, Shishira), the Noongar people of southwest Australia track six seasons defined by wind and rain rather than dates, and the Chinese agricultural calendar splits the year into 24 solar terms with names like Awakening of Insects, Grain in Ear, and Frost's Descent. Those names all do the same job: they tell a farmer, sailor, or hunter what to expect from the land right now.
That is the secret to inventing convincing seasons for a fantasy calendar. Name them for what people actually experience during that stretch: the mud, the lambing, the first frost, the salt haze off the sea. Short compound words (Leaffall, Frostbreak, Highsun) feel old and worn-in, while phrases with an article (The Thawing, The Long Dark, The Lean Months) sound like something villagers say aloud. Mixing both gives a calendar texture, and naming five or six seasons instead of four instantly signals a world with its own climate.
This list combines invented season names built on those patterns with real ones from Old English, Latin, the pagan Wheel of the Year, church calendars, the traditional full-moon names, the season words of many languages, and folk weather spells like Blackthorn Winter, to borrow or adapt.
How to choose season names
- Decide what your world's seasons are for before naming them: an agrarian society names seasons after crops and weather, a seafaring one after winds and tides, a desert one after water.
- Vary the grammar across a calendar. Pair one-word compounds (Reaptide) with article phrases (The Scorch) so the set does not read as a template.
- Borrow real structures like the solar terms (Minor Cold, Major Cold) when you need many subdivisions; the paired minor/major pattern makes long calendars easy for readers to follow.
- Check that season names do not clash with place or character names in your setting; Yule and Samhain carry strong real-world associations that may or may not fit.
Frequently asked questions
How many seasons should a fantasy calendar have?
Anything from two (wet and dry) to twenty-four (like the Chinese solar terms) is realistic. Six is a good sweet spot for fiction: it feels distinct from our calendar without overwhelming readers with names.
Are these real season names or made up?
Both. Names like Beltane, Harmattan, Djeran, and Grain Rain are real terms from various cultures and calendars; names like Frostfall, The Greening, and Highsun are invented in the same style for worldbuilding.
Can I use season names as character names?
Yes. Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter are all established given names, and softer terms like Haru, Vasanta, and Ostara work well as fantasy first names too.
Where do the full-moon names come from?
Names like Wolf Moon, Harvest Moon, and Beaver Moon are the traditional North American names popularized by the Old Farmer's Almanac, drawing on Algonquin and colonial folk usage for each month's full moon.
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All 1,000 season names
A: 39 names
- Acornfall
- Advent
- Aestas
- Aftermath
- Æfterra Geola
- Æfterra Liða
- Akhet
- Aki
- Alban Arthan
- Alban Eilir
- Alban Elfed
- Alban Hefin
- All-Hallown Summer
- Almabtrieb
- Alpabzug
- Altweibersommer
- Amberfall
- Amihan
- Anoixi
- Antlershed
- Apple Harvest
- Applefall
- Ærra Geola
- Ærra Liða
- Ashdrift
- Ashfall
- Asparagus Season
- Aujaq
- Aurora Nights
- Aurora Season
- Automne
- Autumn
- Autumn Flush
- Autumnal Equinox
- Autumnus
- Avalanche Season
- Avalanche Weeks
- Aviv
- Awakening of Insects
B: 62 names
- Back End
- Bahar
- Bailu
- Bamboo Shoots Sprout
- Banggerreng
- Bare Season
- Barleymoon
- Barsaat
- Basant
- Bears Start Hibernating
- Bearsleep
- Beaver Moon
- Beekeeper's Summer
- Beemoon
- Bega
- Belg
- Beltane
- Berrytide
- Biboon
- Biderap
- Birak
- Black Fly Season
- Blackberry Season
- Blackberry Winter
- Blackfrost
- Blackice
- Blackthorn Winter
- Bloketu
- Blood Month
- Bloomdew
- Blooming Moon
B, continued
- Bloomrise
- Blossomfall
- Blossomtide
- Blotmonað
- Bluebell Season
- Blueberry Moon
- Bom
- Bora Season
- Borrowed Days
- Borrowing Days
- Borsha
- Boshonto
- Bōshu
- Bracken Fall
- Bracken Season
- Bramblefall
- Break-Up
- Brightwake
- Brittsommar
- Bruma
- Brumaire
- Buath Gurru
- Buck Moon
- Budbreak
- Budburst
- Bunuru
- Burn Season
- Burran
- Burrugin
- Burst of the Monsoon
- Bush Warblers Sing
C: 52 names
- Čakča
- Camellias Bloom
- Candlemas
- Candletide
- Cane Season
- Canícula
- Caravan Season
- Caterpillars Become Butterflies
- Chaste Moon
- Chaturmas
- Cheesetide
- Cheimonas
- Cherry Blossom Front
- Chestnut Season
- Chillai Kalan
- Choref
- Christmastide
- Chrysanthemums Bloom
- Chunfen
- Chushu
- Cicada Summer
- Cicadasong
- Ciderfall
- Closed Harbor
- Cloudberry Season
- Cloudtide
- Cobbler's Thaw
- Cod Season
- Cold Dew
- Cold Food Season
- Cold Moon
- Coldreach
- Coldwane
- Cool Nights
- Cool Winds Blow
- Cormorant Season
- Cotton Flowers Bloom
- Court Season
- Cowslip Season
- Cranberry Season
- Cranemoon
- Cricketmoon
- Crickets Chirp Around the Door
- Crop Over
- Crow Moon
- Crow's Feast
- Crow-Dipper Sprouts
- Crush Season
- Crust Moon
- Cuckoo Storm
- Cuckoocall
- Cyclone Season
D: 40 names
- Daffodils Bloom
- Dagwaagin
- Dahan
- Daikan
- Dálvegiđđa
- Dálvi
- Dampfall
- Darkreach
- Dashu
- Date Harvest
- Daxue
- Deep Autumn
- Deepdark
- Deepgreen
- Deepsnow
- Deepwinter
- Deer Shed Antlers
- Dewgleam
- Deyr Season
- Distant Thunder
- Djeran
- Djilba
- Dog Days
- Dogwood Winter
- Doldrums Season
- Dong
- Dongzhi
- Doyō
- Drover's Road
- Dry Season
- Dry Thunder
- Drygrass
- Dryreach
- Dune Bloom
- Duskfall
- Duskmoon
- Dust Season
- Dustwake
- Dustwind
- Dyad Moon
E: 19 names
- Earlythaw
- Earrach
- East Wind Melts the Ice
- Eastertide
- Eel Season
- Egg Laying Moon
- Einmánuður
- Elderflower Weeks
- Ember Days
- Ember Season
- Ember Sky
- Emberfall
- Emberglow
- End of Heat
- Eosturmonað
- Epiphanytide
- Été
- Été de la Saint-Martin
- Evening Cicadas Sing
F: 58 names
- Fair Season
- Fall
- Fallow Season
- False Fall
- Fastnacht
- Fiddlehead Season
- Fire Season
- Firecrown
- Firefly Season
- Firewood Season
- First Cherry Blossoms
- First Flush
- First Furrow
- First Lotus Blossoms
- First Peach Blossoms
- First Rainbows
- First Reeds Sprout
- Firstfrost
- Firstfruits
- Firstlight
- Firstmelt
- Firstmow
- Firstsnow
- Firstsow
- Fish Emerge from the Ice
- Fisher's Calm
- Flametide
- Fleet's Return
- Flood Season
- Floréal
- Flower Moon
- Fly Season
- Foaling Season
- Fogmonth
- Fogtide
- Foliage Season
- Fómhar
- Fool's Spring
- Foxmoon
- Freeze-Up
- Freezing Over Moon
- Frimaire
- Frogmoon
- Frogs Start Singing
- Frost Moon
- Frost's Descent
- Frostbite
- Frostbreak
- Frostcrown
- Frosteve
- Frostfall
- Frostsmoke
- Fructidor
- Frühling
- Fthinoporo
- Fumizuki
- Furrowtime
- Fuyu
G: 46 names
- Gaeaf
- Gaeul
- Gale Season
- Garmi
- Garúa Season
- Geassi
- Geimhreadh
- Germinal
- Geshi
- Giđđa
- Glacier Melt
- Gleaner's Fortnight
- Gleaningtide
- Góa
- Goldentide
- Goldfall
- Goose Summer
- Gooseflight
- Goosemoon
- Gormánuður
- Gorseblaze
- Grain Buds
- Grain in Ear
- Grain Rain
- Grape Harvest
- Grapemoon
- Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud
- Great Spirit Moon
- Green Season
- Greendeep
- Greenebb
- Greenshoot
- Greentide
- Greenwane
- Greenwax
- Grishma
- Grouse Season
- Growing Season
- Gu Season
- Gudjewg
- Guling
- Gunumeleng
- Gurrung
- Guyu
- Gwanwyn
- Gyeoul
H: 64 names
- Habagat
- Haf
- Hairst
- Hakuro
- Halcyon Days
- Halfdark
- Haligmonað
- Hallowtide
- Hanabie
- Hanami Season
- Hanlu
- Haremoon
- Hærfest
- Harmattan
- Harpa
- Haru
- Harvest Home
- Harvest Moon
- Harvestend
- Harvestide
- Hatching Moon
- Haustmánuður
- Hawks Learn to Fly
- Hawthorn Season
- Hay Moon
- Hayfall
- Haymaking
- Hazelmoon
- Hazetide
- Hazuki
- Hearthhold
- Heathburn
H, continued
- Heather Bloom
- Heatwake
- Heatwane
- Hemanta
- Herbst
- Herdhome
- Herring Fortnight
- Herring Season
- Heyannir
- Hibernating Insects Surface
- Hiems
- Higan
- High Pasture
- High Summer
- Highsun
- Highwater
- Hiver
- Hoarfrost
- Hoartide
- Honey Flow
- Hop Picking
- Höst
- Hoʻoilo
- Hreðmonað
- Hundstage
- Hungermoon
- Hungertide
- Hungry Gap
- Hunter's Moon
- Hunting Season
- Hurricane Season
- Hydref
I: 16 names
- Ice Harvest
- Ice Saints
- Ice Thickens on Streams
- Ice-Out
- Icecrown
- Icegleam
- Icehold
- Icemelt
- Icemoon
- Icetide
- Ilkbahar
- Imbolc
- Indian Summer
- Invierno
- Irises Bloom
- Iuk
J: 5 names
- Jangma
- January Thaw
- Jilaal
- Jingzhe
- June Gloom
K: 27 names
- Kaamos
- Kalbaishakhi
- Kalokairi
- Kambarang
- Kannazuki
- Kanro
- Kau
- Kayitz
- Keichitsu
- Kelp Burning
- Kelp Season
- Kesä
- Kevät
- Khamsin
- Kharif
- Kiangazi
- King's Peace
- Kingdomtide
- Kiremt
- Kış
- Kisaragi
- Knock-Em-Down Season
- Kōanga
- Kogarashi
- Koharubiyori
- Kokuu
- Kōyō Season
L: 42 names
- Lambing Moon
- Lambing Season
- Lambing Storm
- Lammas
- Lammastide
- Lampmonth
- Land Starts to Freeze
- Lanternglow
- Larkrise
- Larksong
- Last Light
- Lastreap
- Lastsow
- Late Harvest
- Lavender Harvest
- Leaf Peeping Season
- Leaffall
- Leafturn
- Leafwane
- Lean Season
- Lencten
- Lent
- Leto
- Lichun
- Lidong
- Lightreturn
- Liqiu
- Litha
- Little New Year
- Lixia
- Lobster Season
- Locust Winter
- Long Rains
- Long Twilight
- Longday
- Longlight
- Longnight
- Low Pasture
- Low Water
- Lowlight
- Lowsun
- Lughnasadh
M: 57 names
- Mabon
- Major Cold
- Major Heat
- Major Snow
- Makahiki
- Makuru
- Malkosh
- Mango Season
- Mango Showers
- Mangzhong
- Maple Leaves and Ivy Turn Yellow
- Maple Season
- Marchmas
- Market Season
- Marrai'gang
- Martinmas
- Masika
- Mastfall
- Matariki
- Mayfly Hatch
- Mead Moon
- Meher
- Meiyu
- Meltemi Season
- Meltrun
- Messidor
- Michaelmas
- Midnight Dusk
- Midnight Sun
- Midsummer
- Midwinter
- Migration Season
- Miller's Glut
- Minazuki
- Minor Cold
- Minor Heat
- Minor Snow
- Mirage Weeks
- Mist Starts to Linger
- Mistfall
- Mistmonth
- Mistral Season
- Molting Moon
- Momiji Season
- Monsoon
- Moonwane
- Morel Season
- Mørketid
- Morningtide
- Mörsugur
- Mosquito Season
- Mossmoon
- Mud Season
- Mudrise
- Mudtime
- Mushroom Season
- Mutsuki
N: 15 names
- Nagatsuki
- Natsu
- Neap Weeks
- Nesting Season
- Nettletide
- Ngahuru
- Ngoonungi
- Niibin
- Ninth Month Rains
- Nipin
- Nivôse
- Noontide
- North Wind Blows the Leaves
- Nuttide
- Nyūbai
O: 12 names
- Oasis Days
- Oatmoon
- Old Wives' Summer
- Olive Harvest
- Onion Snow
- Open Water
- Orchid Season
- Osen
- Ostara
- Otoño
- Owlmoon
- Oyster Season
P: 34 names
- Pack Ice
- Paeez
- Palesun
- Parra'dowee
- Pass-Opening
- Passiontide
- Patjhar
- Paulownia Trees Produce Seeds
- Peach Season
- Peatcutting Season
- Peonies Bloom
- Peret
- Petal Fall
- Pheasants Start to Call
- Pilgrim's Fair Weather
- Pilgrimage Season
- Pink Moon
- Pipon
- Plough Monday Season
- Ploughtide
- Plum Rains
- Plumglut
- Pluviôse
- Polar Night
- Pollendrift
- Poorneet
- Prairial
- Praying Mantises Hatch
- Primavera
- Printemps
- Ptanyetu
- Puanga Season
- Pumpkin Season
- Pure Brightness
Q: 4 names
- Qingming
- Qiufen
- Queen's Progress
- Quickgrass
R: 39 names
- Rabi
- Rain Water
- Rainbows Hide
- Rains Retreat
- Rainsong
- Rainy Season
- Ramp Season
- Raspberry Moon
- Rasputitsa
- Raumati
- Reaper's Rest
- Reaptide
- Redbud Winter
- Redfall
- Reedmoon
- Rice Harvest
- Rice Planting Season
- Rice Ripens
- Ricemoon
- Ricing Moon
- Rikka
- Rimefall
- Rimewake
- Risshū
- Risshun
- Rittō
- Riverswell
- Rogationtide
- Rootmoon
- Rootwake
- Rose Moon
- Rotten Grass Becomes Fireflies
- Rowanfall
- Rowen
- Rushbearing Season
- Ruska
- Rusttide
- Rutting Season
- Ryemoon
S: 123 names
- Safflowers Bloom
- Saffron Harvest
- Sailing Season
- Saint Luke's Little Summer
- Sakura Season
- Salmon Gather and Swim Upstream
- Salmon Run
- Salt Season
- Saltwind
- Samhain
- Samhradh
- Samidare
- Sandstorm Season
- Santa Ana Season
- Sapwake
- Sardi
- Sardine Run
- Satsuki
- Sayf
- Schafskälte
- Second Sowing
- Second Summer
- Seeddrift
- Seedsleep
- Seedtime
- Seimei
- Setsubun
- Shad Run
- Shamal Season
- Sharad
- Shearing Season
- Sheepshear Moon
- Sheetkaal
- Shemu
- Shepherd's Rest
- Shimotsuki
- Shishira
- Shita
- Shiwasu
- Shōkan
- Shōman
S, continued
- Shorot
- Short Rains
- Short Shadows
- Shōsetsu
- Shosho
- Shoulder Season
- Shrovetide
- Shuangjiang
- Shūbun
- Shunbun
- Sikwan
- Silage Season
- Silkworms Feast on Mulberry
- Simmer Dim
- Simoom Season
- Sirocco Season
- Skerpla
- Slaughtertide
- Sleetmoon
- Sloefall
- Slumbertide
- Small Rains
- Smokemonth
- Smoketide
- Snow Moon
- Snowdeep
- Snowdrop Season
- Snowhush
- Snowmelt Moon
- Snowsleep
- Sōkō
- Sólmánuður
- Solmonað
- Sootmonth
- Sower's Hope
- Sowingtide
- Sparkfall
- Sparrows Start to Nest
- Spawning Season
- Spring
- Spring of Deception
S, continued
- Spring Tides
- Springs Thaw
- St. Martin's Summer
- Stagcall
- Stagmoon
- Starfall Nights
- Starfrost
- Start of Autumn
- Start of Spring
- Start of Summer
- Start of Winter
- Stav
- Stick Season
- Storm Petrel Days
- Stormbreak
- Stormlull
- Stormtide
- Strawberry Moon
- Strawberry Season
- Strawberry Spring
- Stubbleburn
- Stubbletide
- Sturgeon Moon
- Sugar Snow
- Sugaring Season
- Summer
- Summer Solstice
- Summerlull
- Sumor
- Sun's Rest
- Sunblaze
- Sunreach
- Sunreturn
- Sunstill
- Sunturn
- Sunwax
- Swallowreturn
- Swanmoon
- Swarm Season
- Swiftflight
- Syksy
T: 159 names
- Tabestan
- Tadpole Season
- Tag-init
- Tag-ulan
- Taisetsu
- Taisho
- Takurua
- Takwakin
- Tallgrass
- Talvi
- Tattie Holidays
- Tea Picking
- Termination Dust
- Thawsend
- The Banking
- The Bare Branch
- The Bitter Months
- The Black Rains
- The Blanketing
- The Blooming
- The Blue Weeks
- The Brightening
- The Brown Weeks
- The Browning
- The Build-Up
- The Burning Days
- The Calving
- The Closed Passes
- The Cracking
- The Days of Ash
- The Days Without Shadow
- The Dead Days
- The Deepening
- The Dimming
- The Droving
- The Drowning Rains
- The Dry
- The Dwindling
- The Empty Wells
- The Fading
- The Falling
- The Fat Months
- The Fever Months
- The Full Granary
- The Gathering
- The Gilding
- The Glare
- The Gleaning
- The Great Melt
- The Green Flood
- The Greening
- The Greying
- The Hardening
T, continued
- The Hollow Months
- The Homecoming
- The Honey Weeks
- The Hundred Bright Days
- The Hush
- The Idle Weeks
- The Kindling
- The Last Sheaf
- The Lean Months
- The Lengthening
- The Listening
- The Little Dark
- The Long Dark
- The Long Gold
- The Long Thaw
- The Longest Night
- The Loosening
- The Mire
- The Nights of Fire
- The Nights Without Dark
- The Nine Colds
- The Open Road
- The Open Sea
- The Outgoing
- The Parching
- The Pollening
- The Quickening
- The Quiet Snow
- The Reaping
- The Reckoning
- The Red Dust
- The Ripening
- The Rising
- The Rotting Weeks
- The Salt Months
- The Scorch
- The Season of Fireflies
- The Season of Fires
- The Season of Floods
- The Season of Frogs
- The Season of Ice
- The Season of Locusts
- The Season of Moths
- The Season of Salt
- The Season of Sap
- The Season of Sun
- The Season of Warm Stone
- The Season of Winds
- The Second Thaw
- The Shedding
- The Silvering
- The Softening
- The Sprouting
T, continued
- The Still Cold
- The Stirring
- The Swarming
- The Sweet Months
- The Swelling
- The Swelter
- The Thawing
- The Thin Light
- The Time of Banked Fires
- The Time of Lanterns
- The Time of Open Doors
- The Trickle
- The Turning Leaf
- The Unlocking
- The Waking
- The Warm Rains
- The Watching
- The Wet
- The Wet Green
- The White Silence
- The Windy Weeks
- The Winnowing
- The Withering
- The Year's Ebb
- The Year's Hinge
- The Yellowing
- Thermidor
- Thick Fog Descends
- Thinice
- Third Harvest
- Third Winter
- Thistledown Days
- Thornbloom
- Threshingtide
- Thrushsong
- Thunder Ceases
- Tidesebb
- Tithe Days
- Tōji
- Tonalco
- Tornado Season
- Þorri
- Tournament Season
- Trade Wind Season
- Transhumance
- Þrimilce
- Truffle Season
- Tsukimi Season
- Tsuyu
- Turnip Winter
- Tvímánuður
- Two-Sun Summer
- Typhoon Season
U: 5 names
- Ukiaq
- Ukiuq
- Upirngaaq
- Usui
- Uzuki
V: 17 names
- Vår
- Varsha
- Vårvinter
- Vasanta
- Vendange
- Vendémiaire
- Ventôse
- Ver
- Veraison
- Veranico
- Veranillo de San Juan
- Veranillo de San Miguel
- Verano
- Vernal Equinox
- Vesna
- Vintagetide
- Vuli
W: 41 names
- Wadi Flood
- Wagtails Sing
- Waniyetu
- Waring
- Warm Winds Blow
- Wassail Season
- Waxwing Winter
- Weihnachtszeit
- Well-Watching
- Wellfall
- Weodmonað
- Wet Season
- Wetu
- Whaling Season
- Wheat Ripens
- Wheat Sprouts Under Snow
- Whippoorwill Winter
- White Dew
- White Season
- Whitehush
- Whitsuntide
- Widow's Frost
- Wild Geese Fly North
- Wildfire Season
- Wildflower Season
- Windbite
- Windfall Season
- Windmoon
- Windrise
- Winter
- Winter Full Moon
- Winter Solstice
- Winterfylleð
- Wiritjiribin
- Wolf Moon
- Wolfmonth
- Wombat Season
- Worm Moon
- Worms Surface
- Wrecking Season
- Wurrgeng
X: 7 names
- Xagaa
- Xiaohan
- Xiaoman
- Xiaoshu
- Xiaoxue
- Xiazhi
- Xopan
Y: 11 names
- Yayoi
- Yearseve
- Yearturn
- Yegge
- Yeoreum
- Ýlir
- Yoreh
- Yukimi Season
- Yule
- Yuletide
- Yushui