85 Best Summer Instagram Captions for All of Your Sun-Kissed Photos

You've already curated a pic with your pedicured toes lightly sprinkled with sand, the most coveted new beach read in hand and white-capped waves kissing the beach under a robin's egg sky. Now, all you need is the perfect summer Instagram caption to capture the vibe and share it with your pals.

Basking in the sun shouldn't involve sweating over a few words that encapsulate your 'gram-worthy beach day, trip to the carnival, ice cream social or other activity that makes the most of the warm weather. Spend those sweltering summer nights enjoying your friends and family, and leave the Instagram captions to us. From the most awww-worthy sentiments to puntastic captions that will make you LOL, we've rounded up some cute and fun sayings for swim days (ready your pool floats!), campfires and all of those summer activities that make the dog days of the season some of our favorites.

Cute Summer Captions

• Couldn’t love you s’more.

• Catching some rays, some waves and some favs.

• You’re one in a melon.

• Sunsets > Netflix.

• Let’s seas the day.

• Girls just wanna have sun.

• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream and that’s pretty much the same thing.

• Nothing but sandy skin and summer smiles.

• Getting my daily dose of Vitamin Sea.

• Keepin' it reel.

• Paradise found.

• Single and ready to fla-mingle.

• Find me in the waves.

• Life is better in a bikini.

• Vacation mode: On.

• Living on island time.

• Tan lines may fade, but friends are forever.

• Sunshine is the best medicine.

Funny Summer Captions

• Nothing is stronger than a mother’s love ... for piña coladas.

• My daily motivation: Every hot day is one step closer to a PSL.

• Eat, drink and be sweaty.

• You’re my lobster (roll).

• My BFF is the A/C unit.

• Can someone please give summer a speeding ticket?

• You used to call me on my shell phone.

• A balanced diet is a glass of rosé in each hand.

• Shake your palm palms.

• Winter who?

• If you're not barefoot, you're overdressed.

Beach Captions for Summer

• Beach bum alert.

• Life’s a beach.

• Beach hair, don't care!

• Forward my mail, I'm a beach bum now.

• Don't mind my resting beach face.

• Beach you to it.

• Beach vibes only.

• Everyone should believe in something. I believe I'll go to the beach.

• Gone to the beach. Back never.

• Saltwater cures all wounds.

• You can find me where the sand meets the water.

Summer Activity Captions

• Things are going swimmingly.

• Queen of the (sand) castle.

• Putting the "pool" in carpool.

• Tan lines, salt in my hair, sand in my toes: Heaven.

• Pies, fries and these guys. *heart emoji*

• This really floats my boat.

• Shell yeah!

• Giving in to pier pressure.

• Putting the lime in the coconut.

• All you need is ice cream.

• I'm on a boat!

• The only nation I'm visiting this summer is imagination.

• Aboat time!

• I need a six-month vacation twice a year.

• Queen of the grill.

• Tropic like it's hot!

• I'll be at the grill if you need me.

Summer Captions Inspired by Songs

• "Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head." —The Lovin’ Spoonful

• "We'll keep on spending sunny days this way." — The Young Rascals

• "Here comes the sun, and I say, it's all right." —The Beatles

• "Summertime, and the livin' is easy." —Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

• "Summer loving, had me a blast." —John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

• "Time to sit back and unwind." —DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

• "There is something about the summer that makes me moody." —Best Coast
  

• "Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top, sun-kissed skin, so hot we'll melt your popsicle." —Katy Perry
  

• "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
  

• "Sunshine, blue eyes, tan lines, slow tide rollin'." —Jake Owen
  

• "Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet." —Justin Timberlake
  

• "As long as I live, whatever I do, as great as it is, you know what's a bummer, I ain't never gonna beat this summer with you." —Brad Paisley
  

• "I wanna soak up the sun." —Sheryl Crow
  

• "I got a pocketful of sunshine." —Natasha Bedingfield
  

• "In the summertime when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky." —Mungo Jerry
  

Summer Captions Inspired by Quotes

• "I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket." —Kellie Elmore

• "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” —Sam Keen

• "When all else fails, take a vacation." —Betty Williams

• "Summer afternoon — to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." —Henry James

• "A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in." —Robert Orben

• "Everything magical happens between the months of June and August." —Jenny Han

• "In summer, the song sings itself." —William Carlos Williams
  

• "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter." – Henry David Thoreau
  

• "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." —Audrey Hepburn
  

• "In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different." – John Steinbeck
  

• "Summertime is always the best of what might be." —Charles Bowden
  

• "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." —John Lubbock
  

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