Summer solstice

At this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 17 hours, 9 minutes during the summer solstice and 7 hours, 22 minutes during the winter solstice.

In the northern hemisphere, winter solstice occurs on about December 21, summer solstice is near June 21, spring equinox is around March 20 and autumnal equinox is about September 23.

Winter solstice

June Solstice

December Solstice

A tropical year (also known as a solar year), for general purposes, is the time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons, as seen from Earth for example, the time from vernal equinox to vernal equinox, or from summer solstice to summer solstice.

Solstice dawn over Stonehenge, UK.

If daylight hours were the only thing that determined average temperature, wouldn't the North Pole be the hottest place on Earth in northern summer because it receives 24 hours of daylight in the months surrounding the summer solstice?

But, the maximum height also changes during the year, with the greatest solar height during the summer months and highest of all at noon on the summer solstice, which is June 21st in the northern hemisphere and December 21st in the southern hemisphere.

At the winter solstice daylight only lasts for 6 hours.

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This circle gradually rises from near the horizon just after the vernal equinox to its maximum elevation (in degrees) above the horizon at summer solstice and then sinks back toward the horizon before sinking below it at the autumnal equinox.

That summer I'm all I'm at Warner that summer

Summer passed.

Summer schools

Summer rice.

SUMMER GAMES

Hot summer

Last summer?

And then over the summer, they're offered a summer job.

We Tripantu is a Mapuche indian celebration to recognize the start of a new year at the Winter Solstice.

In summer, a cool breeze saved us from the summer heat.

Doctor, he wrote no poem last summer. He died last summer.

Sunrise is just before the March equinox (around 20 March) the sun then takes three months to reach its highest point of near 23½ elevation at the summer solstice (around 21 June), after which time it begins to sink, reaching sunset just after the September equinox (around 23 September).

Summer has ended.

Summer has ended.

Pakistan s Cruel Summer

Summer organizational session

Bipolar season summer.

Old Mr Summer

Saratoga. Last summer?

Summer of 1951.

Promptly, every summer.

Title, Poem of Summer. And the date of the summer. 1 937.

Each with the title Poem of Summer and the date of the summer.

Europe s Summer Reading List

Obama s Difficult Fiscal Summer

Our Summer of Extremes

The Crises of Summer

Summer with a Book

Finally Summer in Germany

I spent the summer.

In a summer haze