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Mursula et al. (2011, hereafter MTL11) suggest that there is a 22‐year variation in solar wind activity that coupled with the variation in heliographic latitude of the Earth during the year, gives rise to an apparent semiannual variation of geomagnetic activity in averages obtained over several solar cycles. They suggest that the observed semiannual variation is seriously overestimated and is largely an artifact of this inferred 22‐year variation. We show: (1) that there is no systematically alternating annual variation of geomagnetic activity or of the solar driver, changing with the polarity of the solar polar fields, (2) that the universal time variation of geomagnetic activity at all times has the characteristic imprint of the equinoctial hypothesis rather than that of the axial hypothesis required by the suggestion of MTL11, and (3) that the semiannual variation is not an artifact, is not overestimated, and does not need revision.

Geomagnetic semiannual variation is not overestimated and is not an artifact of systematic solar hemispheric asymmetry