Summer is almost here again, and with it comes the urgent fucking need to commune in outdoor spaces and enjoy the warm weather with a pint or five of your favorite cold brew and a few friends. But open air boozing spots aren’t easy to find, so here’s a little help. Seven of the best — and cheapest — joints for drinking outside in NYC:

Turkey’s Nest Tavern (94 Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg) doesn’t have its own outdoor seating per se, but get a to-go “Big Bud” in a 32-ounce Styrofoam cup (only $3.75!) and all of McCarren Park across the street becomes your personal beer garden. That’s right, you can actually walk out the door with a drink in your hand and go watch all the half-naked hipsters tanning — just don’t ask the bartenders how they get away with it.

Rudy’s Bar & Grill (627 9th Ave. in Hell’s Kitchen) has an ornamental pig statue out front and a spacious patio in the back, with a crowd ranging from abusive old drunks to young Hell’s Kitchen hotties. Inside, you’ll find a nice selection of dirt-cheap pitchers, free hot dogs and a jukebox full of classic-rock jams. That wasted fucker in the corner flashing you the finger? Just fucking ignore him, he’s harmless.

For some international flavor, try International Bar (120 1/2 1st Ave. in the East Village). With $4 well drinks and generous pours, you might not even make it to the cozy back porch to enjoy your drinks. No matter, the neighborhood regulars from all corners of the world have enough stories to keep you entertained at the bar all night — pull up a stool up and prepare to make some new friends.

Can’t afford a European vacation? The Bohemian Hall Beer Garden (29-19 24th Ave. in Astoria, Queens) is the next best thing. It’s a perfect mix between a dingy dive bar and a eastern European-style beer hall, with a massive garden out back offering long, communal-style picnic tables with seating for 800. The oldest beer garden in NYC — it opened in 1919 — also serves up lots of Schnitzel, ‘wurst and a bunch of thick beers with names you probably can’t pronounce.

The Delancey Lounge (168 Delancey St. on the Lower East Side) ain’t exactly a dive, but with a decor that rivals many overpriced hotel lounges, it’s a relative steal. The upstairs roof deck is like a tropical oasis hidden in the middle of an urban jungle and offers dazzling views of the Williamsburg Bridge and downtown Manhattan.

The owner of Gowanus Yaucht Club (323 Smith St. in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn) once described it as “garage-sale chic meets Gilligan’s Island,” and he was pretty fucking dead on. The no-frills, nautically-themed place serves cheap Bud Tall Boys and PBRs in plastic cups — take a seat at a picnic table and one of the friendly barmaids will make yours are never empty long. The perfect place for spending a long summer afternoon getting shit-faced with a few of your closest friends.

How do you bring the beach to urban Brooklyn? At Surf Bar (139 N. 6th St. in Williamsburg), all it took was a wooded boardwalk back patio, a drink list of fun and fruity booze concoctions, and a whole fucking lot of sand. It’s like the seaside tiki shack you remember from college spring break, with Bob Marley blasting, Rum Runners flowing and Red Stripe suds getting sucked down without a care in world. Just watch out for the sand fleas!