At the equinox day and night are of the same length all over the world because the Sun is in the plane of the Earth's equator, and that happens on March 21 and September 22 each year.
At other times the Sun is above or below the Equator, and day and night have unequal lengths.
They begin at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes
The Equinoxes - Autumnal and Vernal (or Spring). The hours of daylight equal the hours of darkness.
The Spring and Fall Equinoxes are the first days of Spring and Fall. In the southern hemisphere, this is not the case. The Spring equinox occurs around the 21st or 22nd of September, not the first day of Spring, which is September 1. The Autumn equinox occurs around the 21st or 22nd of March, not the first day of Autumn, which is March 1.
At the Equator at the two Equinoxes, Spring and Fall.
The three months represent spring, because Persephone was the goddess of spring! I hope that answers your question!
fall equinox partial equinox
What are spring and fall equinoxes
The equinox is either vernal (spring) or autumnal. It can't be both. But spring in the northern hemisphere is autumn in the southern.
There are two equinoxes (i.e. vernal/spring and autumnal/fall) every year.
Equinoxes don't form they are points in time, they happen. An equinox is when the sun crosses over the equator making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth. This happens in spring = spring equinox and in autumn = autumnal equinox
At the moments when spring and autumn begin, the sun is directly over the equator.
The Spring and Autumn equinoxes: 20 March and 22 September.