Season collection

Summer wallpapers

Long light, warm wind, deep color

231 wallpapers · season palette

The Summer collection — Long light, warm wind, deep color — pulls together 231 landscapes whose only true subject is the season itself. Light angle, color temperature, atmospheric haze, the presence or absence of leaves and snow: these are the quiet signals that tell you, before you've read any caption, what month you are looking at. Curating by season is one of the most honest ways to organize landscape photography, because it groups images by the conditions that produced them rather than by the geography they happen to depict.

Use this collection when you want a wallpaper that matches the season you are currently in — or, just as often, the season you wish you were in. A summer landscape on a dreary Wednesday afternoon does honest emotional work that stock photography cannot. The grid is sorted to mix biomes deliberately, so you'll move from forest to coast to high desert without the page settling into one note.

Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland, 20240719 1420 2602
Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland, 20240719 1420 2602 Jakub Hałun · 5461 × 3616
Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland, 20240719 1428 2624
Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland, 20240719 1428 2624 Jakub Hałun · 6056 × 4016
Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland, 20240719 1514 2687
Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland, 20240719 1514 2687 Jakub Hałun · 5934 × 3935
CSIRO ScienceImage 3828 Tropical rainforest near Cairns QLD
CSIRO ScienceImage 3828 Tropical rainforest near Cairns QLD Willem van Aken, CSIRO · 1850 × 1200
CSIRO ScienceImage 3833 Tropical rainforest ranges with sugar crop in foreground north of Cardwell QLD
CSIRO ScienceImage 3833 Tropical rainforest ranges with sugar crop in foreground north of Cardwell QLD Willem van Aken, CSIRO · 1850 × 1200
CSIRO ScienceImage 4193 Aerial view of tropical rainforest adjoining the Barron River near Cairns northern Queensland 2000
CSIRO ScienceImage 4193 Aerial view of tropical rainforest adjoining the Barron River near Cairns northern Queensland 2000 Gregory Heath, CSIRO · 1850 × 1200
Calabria seascape sunset - 8255243780
Calabria seascape sunset - 8255243780 Angelo Gargano · 4167 × 2768
Cambodia jungle
Cambodia jungle Dmitry Makeev · 3456 × 2304
Cape Town (ZA), Sea Point, Nachtansicht -- 2024 -- 1867-70 - 2
Cape Town (ZA), Sea Point, Nachtansicht -- 2024 -- 1867-70 - 2 Dietmar Rabich · 4665 × 3499
Cheonggyecheon stream at sunrise with trees in Seoul
Cheonggyecheon stream at sunrise with trees in Seoul Basile Morin · 6555 × 4370
Cheonggyecheon tree-lined stream and footbridge at sunrise in Seoul
Cheonggyecheon tree-lined stream and footbridge at sunrise in Seoul Basile Morin · 6618 × 4412
Cliff Lake, Lassen Volcanic National Park-8179
Cliff Lake, Lassen Volcanic National Park-8179 Frank Schulenburg · 5481 × 3915
Cliffs of Moher - Cliff path at Stockeen Cliff - geograph.org.uk - 5610730
Cliffs of Moher - Cliff path at Stockeen Cliff - geograph.org.uk - 5610730 Colin Park  · 5184 × 2920
Cliffs of Moher - Cliffs N of O'Brien's Tower - geograph.org.uk - 5610737
Cliffs of Moher - Cliffs N of O'Brien's Tower - geograph.org.uk - 5610737 Colin Park  · 5184 × 2920
Cliffs of Moher - Cliffs N of O'Brien's Tower - geograph.org.uk - 5610739
Cliffs of Moher - Cliffs N of O'Brien's Tower - geograph.org.uk - 5610739 Colin Park  · 5184 × 2920
Climbing a high dune, Great Sand Dunes National Park, 2009
Climbing a high dune, Great Sand Dunes National Park, 2009 DimiTalen · 2875 × 1911
Cloud cumulonimbus at baltic sea(1)
Cloud cumulonimbus at baltic sea(1) Arnold Paul · 3264 × 2448
Cloudscape Over the Philippine Sea
Cloudscape Over the Philippine Sea NASA · 4928 × 3280
Cloudy seascape with crepuscular rays
Cloudy seascape with crepuscular rays Thomas Heins · 5524 × 3683
Colorado River edit
Colorado River edit Adrille (edit by Aqwis) · 3072 × 2048
Colorful clouds and blue sky with water reflection of an island hosting trees at sunrise in Si Phan Don, Laos
Colorful clouds and blue sky with water reflection of an island hosting trees at sunrise in Si Phan Don, Laos Basile Morin · 6230 × 3894
Desenka meadow 2016 G1
Desenka meadow 2016 G1 George Chernilevsky · 6000 × 3600
Desert and ocean - 44533517561
Desert and ocean - 44533517561 Alexander Gerst · 5568 × 3712
Desna river Vinn meadow 2016 G2
Desna river Vinn meadow 2016 G2 George Chernilevsky · 6000 × 4000
Desna river Vinn meadow 2016 G9
Desna river Vinn meadow 2016 G9 George Chernilevsky · 6000 × 3850
Dunes - Great Sand Dunes National Park
Dunes - Great Sand Dunes National Park Andrew Russell · 6000 × 4000
Dunes, windmills and industry on the Wijk aan Zee Noordpier, Velsen, 2022
Dunes, windmills and industry on the Wijk aan Zee Noordpier, Velsen, 2022 DimiTalen · 6016 × 4000
Elakala Waterfalls Swirling Pool Mossy Rocks
Elakala Waterfalls Swirling Pool Mossy Rocks Forest Wander from Cross Lanes, USA · 4845 × 3739
Evan Redman taking photograph of meadow. (b284e7f23d9b44c38af276e958356290)
Evan Redman taking photograph of meadow. (b284e7f23d9b44c38af276e958356290) Steve Redman (MORA) · 2816 × 2112
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951258)
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951258) U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo · 5520 × 3680
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951291)
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951291) U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo · 5520 × 3680
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951307)
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951307) U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo · 5520 × 3680
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951481)
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951481) U.S. Army photo by Davide Dalla Massara · 5520 × 3680
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951494)
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951494) U.S. Army photo by Davide Dalla Massara · 5520 × 3680
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951550)
Exercise Rock Tundra (4951550) U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo · 4240 × 2832
Fields Zangla Zanskar River Ladakh Jun24 A7CR 00981
Fields Zangla Zanskar River Ladakh Jun24 A7CR 00981 This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves. Feel free to use my photos, but pl… · 8024 × 5349

Each Summer wallpaper here is paired with its biome on the detail page, so you can pivot from a Summer mountain image to other mountain photographs without losing the season filter. We re-curate this collection a few times a year as new photographs come in, so check back if you've already worked through the obvious favorites.

Cross-reference this season

The Summer collection mixes biomes by design. To narrow to a single biome, jump to forest, mountain, ocean, desert, coast, canyon, glacier, lake, river, meadow, jungle, or tundra.