Meanings
nounshoulder season (plural shoulder seasons)
plural shoulder seasons
- lifestyleThe time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.
When planning future trips, he echoed Ms. Vargas in recommending that people consider traveling during the “shoulder season,” which his tour company now defines as April and October — no longer May and September.
2022 August 4, Paige McClanahan, “Stockholm Instead of Rome? October Instead of July? How Heat Waves Are Changing Tourism in Europe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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shoulder season. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoulder%20season
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“shoulder season.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoulder%20season. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shoulder season,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoulder%20season.
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