Summertime, the World Over

As the summer heat cranks up, here are summer scenes from around the world.

People sunbathe on Regla beach in Chipiona, near the southern Spanish city of Cadiz. Photo by Javier Barbancho/Reuters


Residents crowd in a swimming pool to escape the summer heat during a hot weather spell in Daying county of Suining, Sichuan province. Photo by Reuters


People visit the public swimming pool Schoenbrunner Bad in Vienna. Photo by Lisi Niesner/Reuters


A boy cools off at the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters


Palestinian children fly kites on the beach of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters


Men play chess on a public beach near Dnipro river in Kiev. Photo by Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters

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