Don’t want to wear a mask on the beach this summer? Get your COVID-19 vaccine.

New Yorkers may be able to stop wearing masks outdoors by the beginning of summer — and other cumbersome restrictions may also be lifted — so long as more people get their shots, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Asked specifically about the mask issue during a City Hall press briefing, he suggested that those rules will be in place through at least June — when he hopes to hit his goal of fully vaccinating 5 million Big Apple residents.

“We want to hold the line through June, so we’ll keep the masks on and we’ll do all the things we need to do,” Hizzoner said, explaining, “After that we’ll be able to reassess.”

In an effort to incentivize more New Yorkers to get inoculated, de Blasio hinted that other coronavirus safety rules and restrictions could also disappear with higher vaccination rates.

“One of things we can say to people is if you want to get rid of masks, if you want to get rid of the social distancing, if you want to get rid of the restrictions — go get vaccinated,” said de Blasio.

However, de Blasio said, “We’re going to have to keep masks and restrictions in place until we’re 100 percent sure we’re out of the woods.”

“And the best way to know we’re out of the woods is to see those vaccination numbers go up and up and up,” he said.

Outdoor mask mandates have become a hot topic in recent days, with many experts suggesting they may not be needed because the risk of catching the coronavirus in the open air is low.

De Blasio’s comments also come a day after The Post ran a front page calling for all New Yorkers to get the vaccine so the city can reach herd immunity and life can return to normal.

More than 3.2 million residents of the five boroughs, or just about 49 percent of the Big Apple’s adult population, have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine since inoculation efforts began, according to the latest city data.

“Just with the number of people vaccinated so far, it’s just pushing down COVID and pushing down the cases and making the city safer,” de Blasio said during the briefing.

City data shows that COVID-19-related hospitalizations and new reported cases in the Big Apple are continuing to trend downward.

Gotham’s COVID-19 infection rate on a seven-day rolling average was at 4.54 percent — “the lowest we’ve seen in a long, long time,” de Blasio said.

“Why? Because of vaccination,” he added. “Because we’re almost at 6 million vaccinations given in the city of New York. It is working.”

The latest data also shows that on Tuesday, 167 people were admitted to city hospitals with suspected COVID-19 and 45 percent of them tested positive.

The city’s seven-day rolling average of new virus cases was at 1,964.

“This is very promising,” de Blasio said.

The mayor noted that “you can see the cause and effect really clearly here,” as a result of more and more vaccinations.

To date, New York City has administered more than 5.9 million coronavirus vaccine doses.