53 Cute Summer Captions For Instagram

Once you've captured the perfect picture enjoying the sunshine during the summer, all you need is a caption for your photo to post it on Instagram. Whether you're enjoying the waves at the beach, hanging at the pool, taking in the sunshine, filling up on summer fare, viewing sunsets, relaxing with a summer read, or boating on the lake, these captions, quotes, and song lyrics are just what you need to complete your Instagram post about summertime.

Short Summer Captions

• "Beach Please"
• "Hello Sunshine"
• "Seas the Day"
• "Vitamin Sea"
• "Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat."
• "You, Me, and the Sea"
• "Paradise Found"
• "Life Is Better at the Beach"
• "Sweet Summertime"
• "Less Monday, More Summer"
• "Ocean Air, Salty Hair"
• "Sea You Soon"
• "My sense of direction leads me to the beach."
• "Girls just wanna have sun."
• "The beach is always a good idea."
• "Good Morning Sunshine."
• "Beach Hair, Don't Care"
• "Shake Your Palm Palms"
• "Good Times and Tan Lines."
• "Happiness comes in waves."
• "Don't worry, beach happy."
• “Life’s a beach.”

Quote Captions

• "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this." -Susan Branch
• "Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." -Jenny Han
• "When all else fails, take a vacation." -Betty Williams
• "Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June." -Al Bernstein
• "Summertime is always the best of what might be." -Charles Bowden
• "The summer night is like a perfection of thought." -Wallace Stevens
• "If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end." –Sarah Dessen

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Song Lyric Captions

• "Sunshine gonna wash my blues away." -Zac Brown Band
• "It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine, it's summertime." -Kenny Chesney
• "'Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about." -John Mayer
• "Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair." -Zac Brown Band
• "Take me somewhere sunny and 75." -Joe Nichols
• "You can find me where the music meets the ocean." -Zac Brown Band, Jump Right In

Funny Summer Captions

• "I'm sorry for the things I said when it was winter." –Unknown
• Hanging with my grill-friends.
• "If you're not barefoot, then you're overdressed." –Unknown
• "If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue." –Katie Lee
• "My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach." -Unknown
• "There's no place like home. Except for the beach." -Unknown

Cute Summer Captions

• "Summertime, and the living is easy." –Ella Fitzgerald
• "The tans will fade but the memories will last forever." –Unknown
• "I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June." –L.M. Montgomery
• "And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling." –Shanti
• "Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me." –Unknown
• "Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly." ­–Van Morrison
• "At the beach — time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted." -T. S. Eliot
• "Every day should be a beach day." –Unknown
• "Life is better in flip flops."
• Dear summer, please don't go.
• Let's press the restart button on summer.