Aura wrote:Most of the story happens between June and August.
To follow up on this (because the Devs have obsessive fans to do all sorts of onerous recordkeeping tasks for them), we have a few marker points throughout the story which place everything roughly together.
In Act 1, there's a scene where Lilly states that it's Fiday, June 8th. That gives us the exact days for Hisao's first week in school. Also, insofar as there's a "canon" year, it's 2007. Working backwards, we note that Hisao says he spent about 4 months in the hospital, so we're looking at his heart attack happening some time in January or February. We also know that Hisao's 18th birthday was sometime during his stay in the hospital (I think the Devs said April 1, because of course they did).
The numbers on the other end are a little fuzzy, but they generally point toward Tanabata being celebrated in August, and happening after exams, during the last week before the Summer Break. Most of the routes (Emi, Rin, Lilly) end right around the time of the Summer Break; Hanako's ends a little earlier. Shizune's is just getting started by then. The whole of Act 3 occurs after Summer Break and "a few months" before graduation. Using the Japanese school year, graduation is in March, meaning that whole sequence likely happens some time in the latter end of Autumn. And, of course, Shizune's route ends with graduation, which falls in March.
I've gone into extensive detail elsewhere, but that's the general skeleton.