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This year’s summer solstice took place June 21, the longest day of 2023, according to Space.com. The summer solstice is ... 6:58 a.m. sunrise, 4:53 p.m. sunset (Daylight saving time ends Nov. 5
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 ...
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.
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.
The June solstice is the solstice on Earth that occurs annually between 20 and 22 June according to the Gregorian calendar. In the Northern Hemisphere , the June solstice is the summer solstice (the day with the longest period of daylight), while in the Southern Hemisphere it is the winter solstice (the day with the shortest period of daylight).
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 summer solstice marks the official start of the astronomical summer and also has the longest amount of sunlight of any day.
In 2022 and 2023, the phenomenon occurred in Honolulu on May 26 and July 16. [4] Hawaii and other locations between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn receive the sun's direct rays as the apparent path of the sun passes overhead before and after the summer solstice.