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What is the Earth's solstice?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The solstices occur when the Sun reaches its maximum angular distance above or below the sky's "celestial equator".

At local noon, at the solstice, the Sun is at its highest in the sky (summer solstice) or

lowest (winter solstice) for the year.

The solstices occur around the 21st of June and 21st of December.

The summer solstice is in June in the northern hemisphere and in December in the Southern Hemisphere.

At the summer solstice, the Sun is overhead at local noon on the tropic of Cancer (northern hemisphere) and the tropic of Capricorn (southern hemisphere).

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