Ranked by IMDb average rating, highest first. Includes films Hallmark tags as set in summer, which spans beach and lake romances, vacation getaways, and several summer-set cozy mysteries.
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Lost Without You
2016 · 84 min★ 8.0Rated 8 with over 1,100 votes, the top score here. The POstables (Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth) chase a bucket list found in a prop mailbox out to New Mexico, while Oliver's backpacking trip with his estranged father turns life-threatening. A retired search-and-rescue dog ends up central to the rescue. Be clear-eyed, this is a Signed, Sealed, Delivered mystery, gentle and faith-tinged, not a beach romance. But it is one of the franchise's strongest, with real warmth and stakes.
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Impossible Dream
2015 · 84 min★ 7.8Rated 7.8 with over 1,200 votes. In Washington for a postal pageant, the POstables decode a cryptic letter that may prove a soldier missing in action is still alive, with a dog's birthday turning out to be part of the code. Mark Valley guests. The Miss Special Delivery pageant and a coded message launching a rescue make it a patriotic, high-stakes Signed, Sealed, Delivered outing. A summer-set cozy mystery rather than a vacation romance. Warm and surprisingly tense for the genre.
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again
2017 · 87 min★ 7.7Rated 7.7 with over 1,100 votes. The POstables find a hidden vase mailed by three sisters in 1999, race to return it to save the family's farm, then discover it is Nazi-looted art with a rightful owner. Barry Bostwick and Colleen Camp guest. The restitution-versus-rescue tension makes this one of the richer Signed, Sealed, Delivered entries. A summer-tagged cozy mystery, not a beach romance, so come for the moral weight rather than the sand. Genuinely affecting for a Hallmark whodunit.
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The Wedding Veil Journey
2023 · 84 min★ 7.3Rated 7.3 with over 1,100 votes, and one of the truer summer getaways here. Workaholic newlyweds Tracy and Nick (Alison Sweeney, Victor Webster) finally take their delayed honeymoon to Greece, only to wash up at a remote island inn after travel mishaps. Lacey Chabert and Autumn Reeser appear. A retired British spy who lock-picks a magic veil between hotel rooms is the standout oddity. A warm Wedding Veil entry with gorgeous Greek scenery. Sun-soaked and easy.
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters
2024★ 7.3Rated 7.3 with over 500 votes, the newest Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Back from their honeymoon, Oliver and Shane help the team deliver three letters recovered from a 2017 mailbox explosion, while Norman and Rita pursue adoption. Rhiannon Fish joins the cast. The "Great Mailbox Breach" backstory and Oliver's 19th-century turns of phrase keep the tone gentle and a little quirky. A summer-tagged cozy mystery, not a vacation romance. Warm and low-key, and a treat for franchise loyalists.
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It Was Always You
2021 · 86 min★ 7.1Rated 7.1 with over 2,600 votes, and a genuine summer romance. Meticulous dentist Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) plans a practical wedding to her business partner, but a bridge closure traps him on the mainland and leaves his free-spirited brother (Tyler Hynes) to finish the details with her. An oyster-eating challenge and David faking a peanut allergy as a "performance piece" supply the comedy. The Krakow-Hynes chemistry is the draw. A warm island-town self-discovery story. Very rewatchable.
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The Presence of Love
2022 · 84 min★ 7.1Rated 7.1 with over 1,500 votes. Burned-out literature professor Joss (Eloise Mumford) travels to her late mother's childhood farm in Cornwall and bonds with a single father (Julian Morris) and his daughter, whom she helps with a learning difference. The Cornish coast in summer is stunning, and the grief-and-fresh-start arc is sincere. A romantic hero quoting the Rolling Stones like classical poetry is a nice touch. A pretty, gentle summer romance. More green hills than beach, but lovely.
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One Summer
2021 · 84 min★ 7.1Rated 7.1 with over 1,300 votes, and one of the most summer-set films here. Grieving widower Jack (Sam Page) brings his two kids to his late wife's lakeside hometown for the summer and starts seeing visions of her at a dilapidated lighthouse he sets out to restore, with help from a local cafe owner (Sarah Drew). The lighthouse-as-bridge-between-worlds device makes it more drama than rom-com. A tender, bittersweet beach-town story about healing. Keep tissues nearby.
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Follow the Stars Home
2001 · 103 min★ 7.1Rated 7.1 with over 1,200 votes, and an earlier, drama-leaning entry. Kimberly Williams-Paisley plays a single mother raising a child through serious adversity, with Campbell Scott and Eric Close in support. This is an old-school, earnest tearjerker rather than a sunny vacation romance, so set expectations accordingly. The summer-coastal setting is a backdrop to a heavier family story. Heartfelt and a touch dated. Pick it for the emotion, not the beach mood.
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The Irresistible Blueberry Farm
2016 · 105 min★ 7.0Rated 7 with over 2,100 votes. City attorney Ellen (Alison Sweeney) is sent by her late grandmother's letter to hand-deliver a message to a man in a Maine coastal town, and stays to weigh a slower, sweeter life with a local contractor (Marc Blucas). Shirley Jones and Kavan Smith co-star. The summer-blueberry-farm-and-harbor setting is genuinely cozy, and the quality-of-life theme lands. A warm, gentle small-town romance. One of the better true summer escapes on this list.
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Edge of the Garden
2011 · 89 min★ 7.0Rated 7 with over 1,100 votes, and the most unusual premise here. Newly single tech exec Brian (Rob Estes) buys an abandoned Maine cottage and starts exchanging letters and garden encounters with Nora, a woman living there in 1960, who is in danger from an undiagnosed illness and an abusive husband. A locket bridges the two timelines. This is a serious cross-time drama, not a beach romance, so go in knowing that. Strange, sincere, and a little haunting. A summer-set outlier.
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Love's Portrait
2022 · 85 min★ 7.0Rated 7 with over 900 votes. Widowed museum curator Lily (Aubrey Reynolds) receives a portrait that is an exact likeness of her, down to her beauty marks, and traces it to a village in Ireland with help from a local postman (Richard McWilliams) and his sister. The fate-versus-skepticism hook and the green Irish-summer scenery carry it. An aunt's commentary on Lily's "birthing hips" is an unexpected note. A warm, slightly mystical summer romance. Pretty and easy to like.
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A Country Wedding
2015 · 86 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 3,400 votes. Famous country singer Bradley (Jesse Metcalfe) returns to his hometown to sell his childhood home before a high-profile wedding, and reunites with his childhood best friend (Autumn Reeser), with whom he held a mock wedding at age thirteen. The ranch setting and country-music backdrop suit the season. The pair considering themselves "married" since childhood is a fun wrinkle. A warm second-chance summer romance. Reliable and charming.
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The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2016 · 84 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 2,100 votes, an Aurora Teagarden mystery. Librarian-sleuth Aurora (Candace Cameron Bure) buys a house whose previous family vanished four years earlier, and her Real Murders Club starts digging. Yannick Bisson plays Martin. The summer small-town setting is pleasant, but this is a cozy whodunit, not a vacation romance, so come for the case. Spoiler-free here by design. A comfortable, brisk entry for Teagarden fans, with the franchise's familiar warmth.
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Wedding Every Weekend
2020 · 84 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 1,500 votes, and a breezy summer-wedding romance. Brooke and Nate (Kimberley Sustad, Paul Campbell) are invited to the same four weddings on four straight weekends, so they go together as platonic "wedding buddies" to dodge being set up, until the friendship deepens. The summer-wedding-season conceit is a smart engine, and the leads are likable together. A warm, low-stakes fake-date romance. One of the more genuinely summery picks on the list.
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Love Strikes Twice
2021 · 84 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 1,500 votes. Unhappily married Chicago lawyer Maggie (Katie Findlay) wishes for a do-over and wakes up fifteen years in the past, where she must decide whether she would choose her husband all over again. The time-travel hook is fun, and she fights to save the town's historic library along the way. An undercover towel-boy named "Brett" who loves Xbox is a comic highlight. A summer-set second-chance fantasy. More high-concept than beachy, but warm.
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Raise a Glass to Love
2021 · 84 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 1,200 votes. Aspiring Master Sommelier Jenna (Laura Osnes) returns to her family vineyard to study for her exam and clashes with the new winemaker (Juan Pablo Di Pace), who favors organic, natural methods over her by-the-book approach. The California-wine-country setting is lush summer scenery, and a dramatic ladybug release counts as a major plot point. A warm enemies-to-lovers vineyard romance. Genuinely seasonal and pleasant.
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Garage Sale Mystery: A Case of Murder
2017 · 90 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 900 votes, a Garage Sale Mystery. Antique-shop sleuth Jenn (Lori Loughlin) buys a vintage reel-to-reel recorder at a yard sale and finds a recording of a man pleading for his life, then investigates the dead owner's old therapy group. The yard-sale-clue hook is a fun cozy device. This is a whodunit, not a summer romance, so come for the case rather than a meet-cute. Spoiler-free here. Comfortable cozy-crime for Loughlin fans.
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Garage Sale Mystery: The Mask Murder
2018 · 84 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 800 votes, a Garage Sale Mystery. Jenn (Lori Loughlin) buys a storage locker full of eerie plaster "death masks," then finds a body in a neighboring unit, while her family competes to build a tiny house for charity. The death-mask premise, including a "Drowned Mona Lisa" backstory, gives it a macabre edge for a cozy. A summer-set whodunit, not a romance. Spoiler-free by design. A slightly darker pick for cozy-mystery regulars.
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A Storm in Summer
2000 · 94 min★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 500 votes, and a serious outlier. Directed by Robert Wise, this is a 2000 period drama starring Peter Falk as a cynical Jewish deli owner who reluctantly takes in a young Black boy from Harlem one summer and forms an unlikely bond. It is about racial tension, grief, and war casualties, far from the Hallmark romance formula, so go in expecting weight. The summer setting is incidental. A moving, old-fashioned drama. Pick it for the performances.
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The Groomsmen Last Dance
2024★ 6.9Rated 6.9 with over 350 votes, a Groomsmen entry. Talent manager Jackson (Tyler Hynes) moves to Italy to be near his teenage daughter and falls for a local restaurant owner (Elena Rusconi), as a grown-up version of his daughter narrates the romance on her own wedding day. Clients who eat soup on camera and burp "Bohemian Rhapsody" supply the comedy. The Italian-summer setting is gorgeous. A warm, quiet second-chance romance. Charming if you like the Groomsmen crew.
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Straight from the Heart
2003 · 88 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 1,800 votes, an earlier-era entry. New York photographer Jordan (Teri Polo) travels to a Wyoming ranch after her best friend answers a personal ad on her behalf, and clashes with a grieving rancher (Andrew McCarthy) while protecting a herd of wild mustangs. Her artistic passion for photographing literal trash is a fun quirk. The summer-ranch setting and the mustang subplot give it texture. A warm, slightly dated city-meets-country romance.
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Two Tickets to Paradise
2022 · 84 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 1,800 votes, and a fun summer-vacation premise. Strangers Hannah and Josh (Ashley Williams, Ryan Paevey) are jilted at the altar on the same day, meet on a park bench, and end up taking their solo honeymoons to the same Hawaii resort. A rigid to-do list, an app named "Orgit," and a tonally odd ghost-tour subplot keep it lively. The Hawaii setting delivers the summer mood. A breezy spontaneity-versus-planning romance. Easy and sunny.
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Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
2020 · 84 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 1,000 votes, a Martha's Vineyard Mystery. Former Boston detective Jeff (Jesse Metcalfe) teams with a local doctor and old flame (Sarah Lind) to solve a gallery-robbery murder, uncovering a smuggling ring on the island. The murder weapon is a hollow sailboat sculpture, which is wonderfully specific. The island setting suits the season, but this is a whodunit, not a vacation romance. Spoiler-free here. A pleasant cozy mystery with a faint second-chance thread.
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Honeymoon, Honeymurder
2021 · 84 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 900 votes, an Aurora Teagarden mystery. With their Paris honeymoon weather-delayed, Aurora and Nick (Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter) take a lakeside-cabin "pre-honeymoon" and promptly find a body in a drifting boat. The romantic-getaway-turned-crime-scene setup is the franchise's bread and butter. A summer-set cozy whodunit rather than a romance, so come for the case. Spoiler-free by design. Comfortable and brisk for Teagarden regulars.
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Garage Sale Mystery: The Beach Murder
2017 · 84 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 900 votes, a Garage Sale Mystery set at the beach. Jenn (Lori Loughlin) helps a widow who suspects her surfer husband's drowning was no accident, and follows a misplaced wetsuit and contradictory currents toward a buyout-driven murder plot. A sensory-deprivation tank and a "Nap App" business idea add flavor. A summer beach-set whodunit, not a romance. Spoiler-free here. A breezy cozy mystery, and the most beach-flavored of Jenn's cases on this list.
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Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone
2021 · 84 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 600 votes. Jeweler Benedict (Tom Everett Scott) and his wife Emilia have hit a breaking point after years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, when his teenage niece arrives and launches "Project W.E.B." (Win Emilia Back). A llama deployed as a romantic gesture at a gallery opening is the standout oddity. Set on Puget Sound in summer, it is a tender second-chance-at-marriage story rather than a light romance. Sincere and a little unusual. Warm if you want something quieter.
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Perfect Harmony
2022 · 84 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 600 votes. Retired pop star Jack (James Denton) and a perfectionist poetry professor (Sherri Saum) are forced to co-plan their best friends' wedding despite a decade of mutual dislike, and discover "perfect harmony" over songwriting. A bubblegum hit secretly inspired by chemotherapy machines and a poetry slam judged by snaps supply the comedy. A summer-wedding romance with a music-versus-academia spark. Warm and likable, with a gentle grief thread underneath.
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Annie's Point
2005 · 87 min★ 6.8Rated 6.8 with over 390 votes, and a beloved older entry. Betty White stars as Annie, who is determined to scatter her late husband's ashes at "Annie's Point" on their 50th anniversary, so she recruits her songwriter granddaughter for a cross-country road trip while her workaholic son chases after them. A grandmother orchestrating a jailbreak and funding the trip via Vegas roulette are the comic highlights. A warm summer road-trip dramedy. White makes it. Sweet and a touch rebellious.
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Surprised by Love
2015 · 84 min★ 6.7Rated 6.7 with over 3,000 votes, the most-rated film here by votes. Businesswoman Josie (Hilarie Burton Morgan) tries to convince her uptight parents to accept her boyfriend at a family anniversary, then finds herself falling for an old high school flame (Paul Campbell) instead. Tim Conway adds comic support. The fake-relationship-meets-real-feelings setup is classic, and the family-gathering setting keeps it warm. A summer-set second-chance romance. Reliable, breezy, and easy to like.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Hallmark summer movie?
By IMDb rating, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Lost Without You (8) tops this list, though it is a cozy postal-detective mystery rather than a beach romance. For a true summer vacation romance, The Wedding Veil Journey (7.3), set on a Greek island, and It Was Always You (7.1) are the standouts.
How many Hallmark summer movies are there?
This guide ranks 30 Hallmark films tagged as set in summer, spanning beach and lake romances, vacation getaways, and several summer-set cozy mysteries. We write a detailed note on every one.
Are there Hallmark movies set at the beach or a lake?
Yes. One Summer is built around a lakeside lighthouse town, Two Tickets to Paradise takes its leads to a Hawaii resort, and The Beach Murder unfolds on the coast. Several summer titles deliver the lake-house and beach-town mood, and we flag which ones earn it.
Why are so many summer Hallmark movies mysteries?
Hallmark's cozy mystery series, including Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Aurora Teagarden, Garage Sale, and Martha's Vineyard, often set their cases in the warm months. They land on this list by season even though they are whodunits rather than romances, and we note that for each.
Where can I watch Hallmark summer movies?
Most air on the Hallmark Channel and stream on Hallmark+. Availability rotates by season and region, so check each film's page for current details.