Never do 31 days pass so slowly as in January. If June seems like a distant mirage, consult our handy guide to making summer happen right here, right now.

1. Dash
It’s a busy day but take a second to smell the flowers. Tour the U.S. Botanic Garden (100 Maryland Avenue SW; 202-225-8333) and have a gander at the lush orchids and other hot-climate blooms.

2. Splash
The Caribbean they’re not. But the indoor pools at the Marie Reed Center in Adams Morgan (2200 Champlain Street NW; 202-673-7771) and the William H. Rumsey Aquatic Center on Capitol Hill (635 North Carolina Avenue SE; 202-724-4495 ) are still fun for laps.

3. Smash
Serve getting rusty? Perfect it in your whitest whites at the indoor tennis courts at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center (16th and Kennedy Streets NW; 202-722-5949) or East Potomac Park (1090 Ohio Drive SW; 202-554-5962).

4. Fash(ion)
Show off that swell spray-on tan from Sun on U (1301 U Street NW; 202-464-7100) with a breezy dress from Phillip Lim’s resort line (Muleh, 1831 14th Street NW; 202-667-3440).

5. Flash
Finish things off with a night at Habana Village — the mojitos and dancing will make you think you died and went to Cuba. In a good way. (1834 Columbia Road NW; 202-462-6310).

See if that doesn’t help you work up a sweat.