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The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec. 21, in the Northern Hemisphere. The celestial event signifies the first day of winter, astronomically.
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 AM. While it was celebrated as a sacred time in ancient cultures, the winter solstice continues to hold importance in the modern day to mark the beginning of winter.
As holiday lights brighten streets and the season of cheer unfolds, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice this year -- a reminder that the darkest day of the year is upon us. ... Winter solstice 2024: ...
The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (December 21 or 22) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (June 20 or 21). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on which it occurs.
The lengths of time when the sun is up are longer around the summer solstice and shorter around the winter solstice, except near the equator. When the Sun's path crosses the equator, the length of the nights at latitudes +L° and −L° are of equal length. This is known as an equinox. There are two solstices and two equinoxes in a tropical year.
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 ...
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 date of the winter solstice can fall at any point between Dec. 20 and 23, depending on the year, but the 21st and 22nd are the most common. In 2023, the solstice fell on the same date but a ...