UT date and time of
equinoxes and solstices on Earth[1][2]
event equinox solstice equinox solstice
month March[3] June[4] September[5] December[6]
year day time day time day time day time
2019 20 21:58 21 15:54 23 07:50 22 04:19
2020 20 03:50 20 21:43 22 13:31 21 10:03
2021 20 09:37 21 03:32 22 19:21 21 15:59
2022 20 15:33 21 09:14 23 01:04 21 21:48
2023 20 21:25 21 14:58 23 06:50 22 03:28
2024 20 03:07 20 20:51 22 12:44 21 09:20
2025 20 09:02 21 02:42 22 18:20 21 15:03
2026 20 14:46 21 08:25 23 00:06 21 20:50
2027 20 20:25 21 14:11 23 06:02 22 02:43
2028 20 02:17 20 20:02 22 11:45 21 08:20
2029 20 08:01 21 01:48 22 17:37 21 14:14

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). It is also known as the northern solstice.

Illumination of Earth by the Sun on the day of the June solstice

Solar year edit

The June solstice solar year is the solar year based on the June solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent June solstices.

The length of the day on June solstice edit

The following tables contain information on the length of the day on 20 June 2016, close to the summer solstice of the Northern Hemisphere and winter solstice of the Southern Hemisphere. The data was collected from the website of the Finnish Meteorological Institute[7] as well as from certain other websites.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

The data is arranged geographically and within the tables from the longest day to the shortest one. Times that occur the next day (21 June) are marked with +.

Fennoscandia and the Baltic states
City Sunrise
20 June 2016
Sunset
20 June 2016
Length of the day
  Murmansk 24 h
  Apatity 24 h
  Bodø 24 h
  Rovaniemi 24 h
  Luleå 1:00 0:05+ 23 h 04 min
  Arkhangelsk 1:34 23:04 21 h 30 min
  Reykjavík 2:55 0:03+ 21 h 08 min
  Trondheim 3:02 23:37 20 h 35 min
  Tórshavn 3:36 23:21 19 h 45 min
  Petrozavodsk 2:55 22:33 19 h 38 min
  Helsinki 3:54 22:49 18 h 55 min
  Saint Petersburg 3:35 22:25 18 h 50 min
  Oslo 3:53 22:43 18 h 49 min
  Tallinn 4:03 22:42 18 h 39 min
  Stockholm 3:30 22:07 18 h 37 min
  Riga 4:29 22:21 17 h 52 min
  Copenhagen 4:25 21:57 17 h 32 min
  Vilnius 4:41 21:59 17 h 17 min
Europe
City Sunrise
20 June 2016
Sunset
20 June 2016
Length of the day
  Edinburgh 4:26 22:02 17 h 36 min
  Moscow 3:44 21:17 17 h 33 min
  Berlin 4:43 21:33 16 h 49 min
  Warsaw 4:14 21:00 16 h 46 min
  London 4:43 21:21 16 h 38 min
  Kyiv 4:46 21:12 16 h 26 min
  Paris 5:46 21:57 16 h 10 min
  Vienna 4:53 20:58 16 h 04 min
  Budapest 4:46 20:44 15 h 58 min
  Zürich 5:29 21:25 15 h 56 min
  Rome 5:34 20:48 15 h 13 min
  Madrid 6:44 21:48 15 h 03 min
  Lisbon 6:11 21:04 14 h 52 min
  Athens 6:02 20:50 14 h 48 min
Africa
City Sunrise
20 June 2016
Sunset
20 June 2016
Length of the day
  Cairo 4:54 18:59 14 h 04 min
  Tenerife 7:08 21:05 13 h 57 min
  Dakar 6:41 19:41 12 h 59 min
  Addis Ababa 6:07 18:46 12 h 38 min
  Nairobi 6:32 18:35 12 h 02 min
  Kinshasa 6:04 17:56 11 h 52 min
  Dar es Salaam 6:32 18:16 11 h 43 min
  Luanda 6:20 17:56 11 h 36 min
  Jamestown 6:49 17:59 11 h 10 min
  Antananarivo 6:21 17:21 10 h 59 min
  Windhoek 6:30 17:15 10 h 44 min
  Johannesburg 6:54 17:24 10 h 29 min
  Cape Town 7:51 17:44 9 h 53 min
Middle East
City Sunrise
20 June 2016
Sunset
20 June 2016
Length of the day
  Tehran 5:48 20:23 14 h 34 min
  Beirut 5:27 19:52 14 h 24 min
  Baghdad 4:53 19:14 14 h 21 min
  Jerusalem 5:33 19:47 14 h 13 min
  Manama 4:45 18:32 13 h 46 min
  Doha 4:44 18:26 13 h 42 min
  Dubai 5:29 19:11 13 h 42 min
  Riyadh 5:04 18:44 13 h 39 min
  Muscat 5:19 18:55 13 h 35 min
  Sana'a 5:33 18:35 13 h 02 min
Americas
City Sunrise
20 June 2016
Sunset
20 June 2016
Length of the day
  Inuvik 24 h
  Fairbanks 2:57 0:47+ 21 h 49 min
  Nuuk 2:53 0:03+ 21 h 09 min
  Iqaluit 2:11 23:00 20 h 49 min
  Anchorage 4:20 23:41 19 h 21 min
  Kodiak 5:07 23:14 18 h 06 min
  Sitka 4:06 22:00 17 h 54 min
  Unalaska 6:34 23:41 17 h 06 min
  Edmonton 5:04 22:07 17 h 02 min
  Winnipeg 5:19 21:40 16 h 21 min
  Vancouver 5:06 21:21 16 h 14 min
  Seattle 5:11 21:10 15 h 59 min
  Ottawa 5:14 20:54 15 h 40 min
  Toronto 5:35 21:02 15 h 26 min
  New York 5:24 20:30 15 h 05 min
  Washington, D.C. 5:42 20:36 14 h 53 min
  Los Angeles 5:42 20:07 14 h 25 min
  Miami 6:30 20:14 13 h 44 min
  Havana 6:44 20:17 13 h 33 min
  Honolulu 5:50 19:16 13 h 25 min
  Mexico City 6:59 20:17 13 h 18 min
  Kingston 5:32 18:45 13 h 13 min
  Bridgetown 5:33 18:27 12 h 54 min
  Managua 5:21 18:11 12 h 50 min
  Port of Spain 5:45 18:30 12 h 45 min
  Georgetown 5:38 18:09 12 h 31 min
  Bogotá 5:46 18:09 12 h 23 min
  Quito 6:12 18:19 12 h 06 min
  Lima 6:27 17:52 11 h 24 min
  La Paz 6:59 18:08 11 h 08 min
  Rio de Janeiro 6:32 17:16 10 h 43 min
  São Paulo 6:47 17:28 10 h 40 min
  Porto Alegre 7:20 17:32 10 h 12 min
  Santiago 7:46 17:42 9 h 56 min
  Buenos Aires 8:00 17:50 9 h 49 min
  Ushuaia 9:58 17:11 7 h 12 min
Asia and Oceania
City Sunrise
20 June 2016
Sunset
20 June 2016
Length of the day
  Provideniya 0:52 22:16 21 h 23 min
  Magadan 3:37 22:19 18 h 41 min
  Petropavlovsk 4:58 21:55 16 h 56 min
  Khabarovsk 4:57 21:04 16 h 07 min
  Ulaanbaatar 5:52 21:54 16 h 01 min
  Vladivostok 5:32 20:55 15 h 22 min
  Beijing 4:45 19:46 15 h 00 min
  Seoul 5:11 19:56 14 h 46 min
  Tokyo 4:25 19:00 14 h 34 min
  Shanghai 4:50 19:01 14 h 10 min
  Lhasa 6:55 20:58 14 h 03 min
  Delhi 5:23 19:21 13 h 58 min
  Kathmandu 5:08 19:02 13 h 53 min
  Taipei 5:04 18:46 13 h 41 min
  Hong Kong 5:39 19:09 13 h 30 min
  Manila 5:27 18:27 12 h 59 min
  Bangkok 5:51 18:47 12 h 56 min
  Singapore 7:00 19:12 12 h 11 min
  Jakarta 6:01 17:47 11 h 45 min
  Darwin 7:06 18:29 11 h 23 min
  Papeete 6:27 17:32 11 h 04 min
  Sydney 6:59 16:53 9 h 53 min
  Auckland 7:33 17:11 9 h 37 min
  Melbourne 7:35 17:07 9 h 32 min
  Dunedin 8:19 16:59 8 h 39 min

See also edit

Astronomy edit

Holidays edit

References edit

  1. ^ Astronomical Applications Department of USNO. "Earth's Seasons - Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion, and Aphelion". Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Solstices and Equinoxes: 2001 to 2100". AstroPixels.com. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  3. ^ Équinoxe de printemps entre 1583 et 2999
  4. ^ Solstice d’été de 1583 à 2999
  5. ^ Équinoxe d’automne de 1583 à 2999
  6. ^ Solstice d’hiver
  7. ^ "Paikallissää Helsinki" [Local weather in Helsinki] (in Finnish). Finnish Meteorological Institute. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  8. ^ "Jamestown, Saint Helena". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Fairbanks". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  10. ^ "Nuuk". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  11. ^ "Iqaluit". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  12. ^ "Sitka". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  13. ^ "Unalaska". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  14. ^ "Provideniya". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  15. ^ "Katmandu". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  16. ^ "Edmonton, Canada". Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  17. ^ "Inuvik, Canada". Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  18. ^ "Winnipeg, Canada". Retrieved 31 July 2021.