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For people in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice this year is Dec. 21, 2024. It'll start at 4:21 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. For people in the Southern Hemisphere, their winter solstice ...
When is the winter solstice 2024? In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice will occur on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 4:21 a.m. EST . Where did the name winter come from?
Dongzhi Festival dumplings. The Dongzhi Festival or Winter Solstice Festival (Chinese: 冬至; pinyin: Dōngzhì; lit. 'winter's extreme')Pe̍h-ōe-jī= Tang Cheh) is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated during the Dongzhi solar term (winter solstice), which falls between December 21 and December 23.
In 2024, the solstice falls on Dec. 21, marking the official beginning of winter and ushering in the season’s characteristic cold fronts and holiday traditions. Winter will end on March 20, 2025.
The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern ).
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.
The winter solstice this year is Saturday December 21 at 4:19 a.m. EST. When is the first full moon of 2025? January’s full moon, the first of 2025, will rise on Monday, Jan. 13.
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]