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For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year, when the Sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's ...
Solstice. A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around 20-22 June and 20-22 December. In many countries, the seasons of the year are defined by reference to the solstices and the equinoxes .
01:48. 22. 17:37. 21. 14:14. Illumination of Earth by the Sun on the day of the June solstice. The June solstice is the solstice on Earth that occurs annually between 20 and 22 June according to the Gregorian calendar. In the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice is the summer solstice (the day with the longest period of daylight), while in ...
Your local time zone in relation to UTC determines the time and even the date that the solstice happens for you. For instance, that’s 1:51 p.m. in Los Angeles, 4:51 p.m. in New York City, 9:51 p ...
June 20, 1796, was the previous earliest summer solstice recorded. During that time, ... 2023, in a festival that dates back thousands of years. When is the next full moon?
The summer solstice officially happens on Thursday at 3:50 p.m. CDT. On the day of the solstice, daylight time varies greatly by location. Miami, Florida, will have 14 hours and 9 minutes of ...
300°. 20–21 January. Xiàzhì is the 10th solar term, and marks the summer solstice, [1] in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar dividing a year into 24 solar terms. [2] It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 90° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 105°. The word xiazhi most often refers specifically to the ...
The name 'midsummer' is attested in Old English as midsumor, and refers to the time around the summer solstice. Astronomically, the solstice falls on 20, 21 or 22 June, but traditionally, in northern Europe, the solstice and midsummer was reckoned as the night of 23–24 June, with summer beginning on May Day.