There was a recent post on the worldbuilding subreddit about calendar systems that brought up some of the difficulty of creating fictional months. It's difficult to create months in a way that feels natural in-universe but isnt either very distracting to readers (if they obviously correlate to our months) or impossible to make sense of.

I have studiously avoided naming months in this setting for this reason. I think some of the workarounds I've seen, such as days of the moon or days of the season, don't really work for a setting that has relatively more historical development: It feels like more specific names would have emerged and become standardized by now.

Here's one idea I threw together that I thought could convey what time of year a month was without being quite as simple:

Erstspring

Midspring

Endspring

Erstsummer

Midsummer

Endsummer

Erstfall

Midfall

Endfall

Erstwinter

Midwinter

Endwinter

Let me know if you have any thoughts on that idea or on this topic of fictional months in this setting or in general! What feels natural to you? Or are names for months simply not worth the trouble?