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Would a planet with a 4 year solar orbit have differing seasons?

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I'm writing a setting for some fantasy novels, and came up with an idea about weather and climate.

The world I'm imagining has an elliptical orbit around a binary system, giving it basically 2 stars. My question however regards the seasons cycle. The way I've drafted it is that such a planet would perform a complete orbit around the stars in 4 years.

By year, I mean a cycle of 12 months, with 4 seasons.

Now, as the planet reaches apoapsis it would enter a "winter year", meaning a year with 4 season, but far colder, and as it reaches periapsis it would enter a "summer year", a year with higher average temperatures, and inbetween those years, a spring and fall years, in which temperatures get progressively warmer and colder respectively.

Would such a setup be possible?

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