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In Chinese astronomy, summer starts on or around 5 May, with the jiéqì known as lìxià (立夏), i.e. "establishment of summer". [11] [12] Summer ends around 7 August, with the solar term of lìqiū (立秋, "establishment of autumn").
In the northern hemisphere, summer spans from the end of June to the end of September. On Sept. 22 , the autumnal equinox marks the start of fall. What are the dates for the four seasons in 2024?
The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, 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 ...
In turn, this discrepancy causes us to have a Leap Day every four years, which shifts the start of summer between June 20 and June 22, depending on the year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere).
Summer will start this year at 4:51 p.m. on June 20. The summer solstice occurs when the northern hemisphere is at its maximum tilt toward the sun.
Xiàzhì or Geshi (Chinese and Japanese: 夏至; Korean: 하지(Haji); Vietnamese: Hạ chí; lit. summer's extreme) is the 10th solar term, and marks the summer solstice. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 90° (around 21 June) and ends when the Sun reaches the longitude of 105° (around 7 July).
The exact start date of summer depends on who you ask. Climate scientists often identify June 1 as the first day of the meteorological summer. For those tuned in to the astronomical calendar ...
Summer officially starts on June 20 or 21 and lasts all the way to September 22 or 23. If we are blessed with a warm spring and fall, summer could feel like it lasts even longer!