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title: "Season Sensor"
description: "Instructions on how to add season sensors into Home Assistant."
date: 2017-07-04 07:00:00
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ha_category: Utility
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ha_iot_class: "Local Polling"
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The `season` sensor will display the current astronomical or meteorological season (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) based on the user's setting in the configuration file.

For information on the difference between astronomical and meteorological seasons please see the link below:

 - [https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons)

All information about how the seasons work was taken from Wikipedia:

 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Astronomical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Astronomical)
 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox)
 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice)

## {% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable the sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: season
    type: astronomical
```

{% configuration %}
type:
  description: "Type of season definition. Options are `meteorological` or `astronomical`."
  required: false
  type: string
  default: astronomical
{% endconfiguration %}

