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Introduction:

In the northern hemisphere (i.e. Europe, North America, etc.), the seasons are divided like this:
- Spring: March, April, May
- Summer: June, July, August
- Autumn: September, October, November
- Winter: December, January, February

In the southern hemisphere however (i.e. Australia, South America, etc.), the seasons are divided like this:
- Spring: September, October, November
- Summer: December, January, February
- Autumn: March, April, May
- Winter: June, July, August

This difference is due to the position of the sun regarding the equator, where the northern and southern hemispheres have opposite seasons.

Input:

In this challenge, we'll take two inputs:

  • One for the month (1 <= m <= 12 or 0 <= m <= 11) (examples and test cases are all 1-indexed).
  • And one for the five 'position-groups' at the latitudes of Earth (-2 <= p <= 2), where -2 is the Antarctic, -1 is the southern hemisphere excluding the Antarctic, 0 are the Tropics in proximity of the equator, 1 is the northern hemisphere excluding the Arctic, and 2 is the Arctic.
    Although the Arctic, Antarctic and Tropics of course still have seasons, for the sake of this challenge we'll say the Arctic and Antarctic are in a constant state of Winter, and the Tropics are in a constant state of Summer.

Here a visual representation of these five groups, where -2 is the Antarctic Circle; -1 between the Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle; 0 between the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer; 1 between the Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer; and -2 the Arctic Circle.

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Output:

One of Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter, following these rules:

  • Is the position input 2 or -2 (Arctic or Antarctic), always output Winter.
  • Is the position input 0 (Tropics), always output Summer.
  • Is the position input 1 (northern hemisphere), output one of the four seasons based on the month input: Spring (m = [3,5]); Summer (m = [6,8]); Autumn (m = [9,11]); Winter (m = 12 or m = [1,2]).
  • Is the position input -1 (southern hemisphere), output one of the four seasons based on the month input: Spring (m = [9,11]); Summer (m = 12 or m = [1,2]); Autumn (m = [3,5]); Winter (m = [6,8]).

Challenge rules:

  • Output any four distinct values of your choice indicating Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter (please state what you've used in your answer).
    -15 bytes bonus if you output Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter as text (case-insensitive, so can be fully lowercase or fully uppercase as well, instead of the used title-case).
  • Month input can be in any reasonable format. Can be either a 0-indexed or 1-indexed integer, Date-object, Month-String, etc.
  • Position input will always be one of these possible five inputs -2, -1, 0, 1, 2.

General rules:

  • This is , so shortest answer in bytes wins.
    Don't let code-golf languages discourage you from posting answers with non-codegolfing languages. Try to come up with an as short as possible answer for 'any' programming language.
  • Standard rules apply for your answer, so you are allowed to use STDIN/STDOUT, functions/method with the proper parameters and return-type, full programs. Your call.
  • Default Loopholes are forbidden.
  • If possible, please add a link with a test for your code.
  • Also, please add an explanation if necessary.

Test cases:

Position    1-indexed Month    Output

-2          8  (August)        Winter
-2          12 (December)      Winter
-1          3  (March)         Autumn
-1          5  (May)           Autumn
-1          8  (August)        Winter
-1          12 (December)      Summer
0           1  (January)       Summer
0           7  (July)          Summer
1           1  (January)       Winter
1           4  (April)         Spring
1           7  (July)          Summer
1           12 (December)      Winter
2           2  (February)      Winter
2           9  (September)     Winter
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Why can't we just use four distinct values for the seasons? \$\endgroup\$ May 14, 2018 at 12:50
  • \$\begingroup\$ I did read that rule, that's why I asked. Also, why are you afraid of "magic-integer calculations"? \$\endgroup\$ May 14, 2018 at 12:55
  • \$\begingroup\$ I don't see anything bad with seeing only calculations, they'll be most likely used for indexing anyway. It's your challenge, but I'd say this is an unnecessary complication. EDIT: about copying, well, that's not really avoidable. \$\endgroup\$ May 14, 2018 at 12:57
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    \$\begingroup\$ I don't think any bonuses are necessary, the program still does work if it just doesn't convert the output to those strings. \$\endgroup\$ May 14, 2018 at 13:06
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    \$\begingroup\$ I think that byte bonuses to offset the byte size of text is totally fine. It's not one of those "Bonus X points if you also do this other task". The challenge is centered around the seasons, so it makes sense to incentivize actually printing the seasons. \$\endgroup\$ May 14, 2018 at 15:33

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Ruby, 33 27 25 bytes

->m,l{[6,m,0,m+6][l]/3%4}

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Return values are:

0 -> winter

1 -> spring

2 -> summer

3 -> autumn

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Python 2, 29 bytes

lambda p,m:[0,m+6,6,m][p]/3%4

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A port of G B's Ruby approach, which turned out to be a few bytes shorter than my own:

32 bytes

lambda p,m:(p%2*(p+m/3+5)or p)%4

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An anonymous function that returns the seasons as the numbers 0 to 3, where they represent Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring in that order.

As for printing the actual season names:

63 - 15 = 48 bytes

lambda p,m:"SAWSuuipmtnrmutiemenrnrg"[(p%2*(p+m/3+5)or p)%4::4]

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There's the combined string if anyone wants it.

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C (gcc), 78 75 (-15 bonus) = 60 bytes

Using 1-based months.

Edit: Rearranged mathematical operators and reduced.

f(m,a){puts("Summer\0Autumn\0Winter\0Spring"+7*(a*a&1?(++a+m/3)%4:2*!!a));}

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    \$\begingroup\$ You can save two bytes with (++a+m/3)%4++a+m/3&3. Also, a*a is odd precisely when a is, so checking a&1 should be fine, no? \$\endgroup\$
    – Lynn
    May 16, 2018 at 13:32
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05AB1E, 26 - 15 = 11 bytes

Uses the approach found by G B

6¹¾¹6+)sè3÷4%“–„Ž¹Ž€È±“#sè

Try it online! or as a Test suite

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