Give Your Photos Some Extra Glow With These Cute Summer Instagram Captions (2024)

We're in vacation mode as soon as summer hits! So bring on all the breezy dresses, summer concerts, refreshing co*cktails, and loads of sunscreen. (If there's one thing we'll be ready for, it's all the fun the season brings!) Speaking of fun, you'll probably take plenty of pics throughout your summer escapades. But before you post them for your friends and family to see, you'll want to brainstorm some clever captions first. Here, you'll find the best summer Instagram captions to help give your vacay pics that extra glow!

The perfect beach selfie needs an equally great caption. Show off your sun-drenched locks with "Beach hair, don't care." If you and your pals are going for a friends road trip, spread the good vibes with a caption that says, "Paradise found" or "Paradise isn't a place, it's a feeling." Even if you're just hanging with the pooch, there's a caption for you: "Dog days of summer." How cute is that?! And for those who get that summertime nostalgia, there are plenty of short summer quotes and happy song lyrics that will provide thoughtful reflection.

These summer captions are exactly what you need to encapsulate all that the warm weather and sunshine have to offer. All you have to do is take tons of pictures to make it one you'll never forget!

Cute Summer Captions

• If you need me, I'll be under the sun.
• Keepin' it reel.
• The ocean has the friendliest wave!
• Spending my days catching some rays.
• Couldn’t love you s’more.
• Suns out, hamburger buns out.
• No shoes, no worries.
• Summer loving had me a blast!
• Sweet sunny disposition.
• My happy season!
• Paradise found.
• Life's better in flip flops.
• Hello grill season!
• What time is it? Summertime!
• Living for these summer days and summer nights.
• Good times and tan lines.
• Sunshine is my medicine of choice.
• Dog days of summer.
• Blue skies, sunshine, everything's fine.
• Stay salty.

Funny Summer Captions

• I love you, summer, and piña coladas.
• Summer, don't be shy. Stay a while!
• Catch me at all the barbecues this summer!
• Tan lines are just kisses from the sun.
• Maxing out all my vacation days.
• Girls just wanna have sun!
• Beach hair, don't care.
• Catch me by the A.C. unit all day.
• You're one in a watermelon.
• Hanging with my grill-friends.
• Summer needs a speeding ticket because it's going too fast.
• The lobster to my roll.
• What's winter?
• If you're not barefoot, you're overdressed.
• So much sun, so little time.
• Ice cream is the most important food group.

Beach-Related Summer Captions

• I'm happier at the beach.
• If there isn't sand in your hair, you're doing it wrong.
• I'll just be here... floating in the ocean.
• Gone to the beach. Back never.
• I like my water with a hint of salt.
• Seas the day.
• Eat. Sleep. Beach. Repeat.
• Salt water fixes everything.
• You, me, and the sea.
• Sky above, sand below, peace within.
• Salty and sweet.
• Life's a wave—catch it!
• Feelin' beachy.
• Happy as a clam.
• Vitamin sea.
• Mermaid kisses and seashell wishes.
• Shell yeah!
• I can sea clearly now.
• Beach bum.
• Sandy toes, summer smiles, can't lose.
• Life's a beach.
• Sea you at the beach.

Vacation Captions for Summer

• To an adventure of a lifetime!
• Does anyone know where I can find more vacation days?
• Keep calm and travel on.
• Paradise isn't a place, it's a feeling.
• Vacation mode: On.
• Living on island time.
• Consider this my formal request for a 6-month vacation, twice a year.

Summer Quotes for Instagram

• "I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." —F.Scott Fitzgerald
• "Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August." —Jenny Han
• "In summer, the song sings itself." —Williams Carlos Williams
• "Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine." —Oprah Winfrey
• "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter." —Henry David Thoreau
• "Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." —Jenny Han
• "Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Summertime is always the best of what might be." —Charles Bowden
• "In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different." —John Steinbeck
• "I wonder what it would like to live in a world where it was always June." —L.M. Montgomery
• "It was June, and the world smelled of roses." —Maud Hart Lovelace
• "I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket." —Kelle Elmore
• "Summer's lease hath all too short a date." —William Shakespeare
• "And the summer seems as though it would dream on forever." —Elizabeth von Arnim

Summer Song Lyrics for Instagram

• "It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine. It's summertime." —Kenny Chesney
• "Here comes the sun, and I say, it's all right." —The Beatles
• "I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine." —Natasha Bedingfield
• "Summer days drifting away to, oh, oh, the summer nights." —Grease
• "On an island in the sun, we'll be playing and having fun, and it makes me feel so fine, I can't control my brain." —Weezer
• "Summer, summer, summertime. Time to kick back and unwind." —Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff
• "Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet." —Justin Timberlake
• "I ain't never gonna beat this summer with you." —Brad Paisley
• "Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby is where I'll be." —The Drifters
• "I'm gonna soak up the sun, I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up." —Sheryl Crow
• "Everybody's gone surfin', surfin' U.S.A." —The Beach Boys