When you’re studying Spanish, whether that’s through Spanish online courses or in-person Spanish classes Madrid or elsewhere, one of the first things you’ll learn is how to tell the time and date. Logically, an important element of this is understanding how to say months in Spanish. Similarly, learning the seasons in Spanish can also be useful to add extra context to your descriptions, so in this blog post we’re going to go through all you need to know in order to master the words for the seasons and months in Spanish.
Here, we’re going to go through the months in Spanish in order, from January to December, so that you can start giving your stories and discussions a concrete date as you continue on your language-learning journey. In the below table, we’ll outline the spellings of the months in Spanish language, but also the pronunciation of the months in Spanish.
| English spelling | Spanish spelling | Spanish pronunciation |
| January | enero | eh-neh-roh |
| February | febrero | feh-breh-roh |
| March | marzo | mahr-thoh |
| April | abril | ah-breel |
| May | mayo | mah-yo |
| June | junio | hoo-nee-yo |
| July | julio | hoo-lee-yo |
| August | agosto | ah-gohs-toh |
| September | septiembre | sehp-tee-ehm-breh |
| October | octubre | ohk-too-breh |
| November | noviembre | noh-bee-ehm-breh |
| December | diciembre | dee-thee-ehm-breh |
Now, let’s move on to the four seasons in Spanish and how to pronounce them. The four seasons in Spanish are:
| English spelling | Spanish spelling | Spanish pronunciation |
| winter | invierno | een-bee-ehr-noh |
| spring | primavera | pree-mah-veh-rah |
| summer | verano | veh-rah-noh |
| autumn | otoño | oh-toe-nyoh |
Now that we know our Spanish months and seasons vocabulary, at least in terms of the words and pronunciations, let’s delve a little deeper into how exactly to use the months in Spanish and the seasons in Spanish.
You may have noticed in the above tables that neither the months nor seasons were capitalised in the Spanish language columns. Two of the most commonly asked questions when learning this vocabulary subject are “do months get capitalised in Spanish?” and “do seasons get capitalised in Spanish?”. The answer in both cases is no, as neither months nor seasons are capitalised in Spanish language. That’s slightly different to English, where months are capitalised, while seasons are also uncapitalised.
Another major grammar question about months in Spanish is “do months have gender in Spanish?” The answer is yes, months in Spanish do have gender and that gender is always masculine. However, it is not usually necessary to use an article with months in Spanish. In other words, you can just say “el tercer mes del año es marzo” (“the third month of the year is March”), rather than saying “el marzo”.
As for the seasons of the year, all of these are masculine except for “primavera”, or “spring”, which is feminine. In this case, the seasons in Spanish do usually require the article, for example, if you say “vamos a la playa el verano que viene” (“we’re going to the beach next summer”). The exceptions to that grammar rule, the cases where the article may be left out, are usually when the season comes after the verb “ser” or after the prepositions “en” or “de”.
Beyond what we’ve already covered above, there are several other questions that tend to come up when learning the months in Spanish. Here, in this FAQs section about mastering the months in Spanish language, we’ll tackle seven more quick questions.
Is it possible to abbreviate the names of months in Spanish, similar to how it’s done in English? Yes, Spanish months can be abbreviated as follows: “enero” becomes “ene.”, “febrero” becomes “feb.”, “marzo” becomes “mar.”, “abril” becomes “abr.”, “mayo” becomes “may.”, “junio” becomes “jun.”, “julio” becomes “jul.”, “agosto” becomes “ago.”, “septiembre” becomes “sept.”, “octubre” becomes “oct.”, “noviembre” becomes “nov.”, and “diciembre” becomes “dic.”.
