A question about the yearly time zone around the world

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I know this is the most random thing of all, but I just wanted to ask (since Aspies would probably answer this), right now is it July all around the world, even in Australia where it's currently winter? Say if I flew to Australia now, would this current month still be called July, or will it be called January?
Does North America have a different season to England? Right now it's mid-summer here in England, and I was just wondering if it is in North America. When I watch the Simpsons, and other American programmes, their Christmas is still in winter, in December.

And how come everywhere you read and in anything you watch about Christmas, it always shows snow, whatever country it's featuring? I mean, doesn't half the world have Christmas in the winter and the other half have Christmas in the summer? Or, on Christmas day, is it Christmas day everywhere all over the world, or in just the part of the world where it's winter?

Any responses would be great. I am dead curious.

Months are words in each language, since Australia is English speaking country its called July there too.
However its not about timezones. Timezones are vertical lines, see this: http://www.worldtimezone.com/

Countries above the center have Summer right now and countries below center has Winter now.
That is because of the suns position, the world is... Ok, I can't explain this, I'm not native English speaker, I know no words for this kind of this.

Basically if it is summer in the UK, then it is winter in Australia. So for them, Christmas still falls in December, as it falls for all English Speaking Christian countries (with a few exceptions such as Coptic Christians, but that's not important). But in Australia they are more likely to have Christmas on the beach, or have a barbecue or something. I think the reason people tend to associate snow with Christmas, is because the modern ideas of Christmas come from northern countries, like Germany, USA and the UK, where it does tend to snow then.

The further away from the equator you are, the more seasonal your weather becomes. So if you are closer to the North pole or South pole, then you will have very different weather in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Plus our days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter (as in time from sunrise to sunset).

Whereas in countries nearer to the equater, their day lengths don't vary so much during the year, and their seasons aren't as different from each other. (Apart from variations like the amount of rain, which as I understand it is more to do with wind patterns.)

If you draw a horizontal line across a map of the world, countries along that line will have fairly similar weather to each other at the same time. In the UK we are a bit different because of weather patterns that make our climate a bit milder than it should be. So we should really have similar weather to Canada, Poland and Russia, but our winters are less cold.

As for the USA, it is summer for them too, but the country is quite tall, so northern states will have similar weather to Northern Europe, and southern states will have similar weather to Southern Europe or even North Africa. Have a look at google maps and you will see what I mean.

I hope some of that at least makes sense.

Cheers for the responses.

It's summer in North America right now!

The highest i have seen is 127 farenheight.

also you should maybe have a look where Adelaide is located.

this concept still blows my mind