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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 ...
October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 76 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 456 – ...
On the summer solstice, we'll enjoy almost 14 hours of daylight in Florida, almost four hours longer than the shortest day of the year in December.
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.
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).
This year, the first day of summer, also known as the summer solstice, is Thursday, June 20. The true solstice will arrive in the Northern Hemisphere at exactly 4:51 p.m. EST.
When does summer start in 2023, anyway? The summer solstice is nearly here, and we're sharing all of the details about the first day of summer—take a look!
Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are the longest and darkness hours are the shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.