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The Persian calendar begins each year at the northward equinox, observationally determined at Tehran. [15] The Indian national calendar starts the year on the day next to the vernal equinox on 22 March (21 March in leap years) with a 30-day month (31 days in leap years), then has 5 months of 31 days followed by 6 months of 30 days. [15]
By the time we reach the summer solstice on June 20, 2025, it will be the longest day of the year. So even though Dec. 21 feels dark, it's actually the turning point toward brighter days.
Because the Julian year is longer than the tropical year by about 11.3 minutes on average (or 1 day in 128 years), the calendar "drifted" with respect to the two equinoxes – so that in 300 AD the spring equinox occurred on about 21 March, and by the 1580s AD it had drifted backwards to 11 March.
The 2024–25 North American winter is the future winter season in North America as it will occur across the continent from December 21, 2024 to March 20, 2025. The season begins at the winter solstice which will occur on December 21, 2024, and it will end at the spring equinox which will occur on March 20, 2025. [1]
The 2024 winter solstice will happen on Saturday, December 21. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the solstice is at 4:21 a.m. ET in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the day with the fewest ...
The day this occurs is called the June solstice day. Similarly, for an observer on the South Pole, the Sun reaches the highest position on the December solstice day. When it is the summer solstice at one Pole, it is the winter solstice on the other. The Sun's westerly motion never ceases as Earth is continually in rotation.
The Wheel of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere.Some Pagans in the Southern Hemisphere advance these dates six months to coincide with their own seasons.. The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by a range of modern pagans, marking the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them.
The summer solstice welcomes the first official day of summer. Find out about the science of the solstice and well as its pagan roots and celebrations of fertility.