Seasons calendar

Time blocking your calendar for productivity, popularised by computer scientist Cal Newport, works. But it narrows your focus to the tactical, and you lose sight of the bigger picture of life. At the same time, humanity feels increasingly out of touch with nature.

Noticing the change of seasons can help on both fronts; reconnecting us to the world outside, and sharpening our awareness of time passing. Bringing a seasonal cue into the same calendar where you plan your days is a small way to hold those two perspectives together.

I looked everywhere online for a simple ICS file to download or a calendar to subscribe to, but found nothing. So I made my own with one per hemisphere1. Each calendar treats Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter as fixed three-month blocks, with each season as a recurring all-day event spanning the full season plus single-day “begins” and “ends” markers. Download the calendar for your hemisphere below.

Northern hemisphere ↓ .ics · ⊕ Subscribe

Southern hemisphere ↓ .ics · ⊕ Subscribe

  1. These seasons use the meteorological calendar. Unlike astronomical, the fixed dates work with a simple yearly recurrence rule (don’t need annual updates) and match what most people think of as seasonal boundaries. ↩