Anywhere around the equator, the days and nights are always about equal.
The solstice occurs in June and December. The June solstice is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, while the December solstice is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
The place where the sun stops its northward motion along the ecliptic is known as the June solstice or summer solstice. This is when the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky, marking the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
days are almost exactly as long as nights
I guess I thing because you can't touch the night and a place you can touch it
The time of the December Solstice, (some moment on a day roughly around December 22), is the moment at the center of a period of no-sunset for any place south of the Antarctic Circle, (about 66.5 south latitude). The farther south the place is, the longer the sun has already been up at the moment of the solstice, and the longer it will stay up after the solstice. If you're at the south pole ... the farthest south you can get ... the period of no-sunset lasts six months, from late September until late March.
The December Solstice occurs in December. It marks the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day and shortest night in the Southern Hemisphere. The Equinox occurs around March and September when day and night are of equal length.
Any place on earth that lie on the equator will have equal day and night time.
Long Day's journey into Night
The latitude of a place is the angle from the Earth's equator north or south to that place.
Places that are close to the equator do not experience much change in the amount of daylight and darkness there is throughout the year. So while the solstices are happening in those parts of the world, they do not experience any major differences. The further you get from the equator and the closer you get to the poles, the more noticeable the effect of a solstice is.
The usual answer is at the March (vernal equinox) and September (autumnal equinox). However this is not really true. Do to effects like refraction, the sun seams to rise earlier and set later than simple geometry would dictate. Thus if you check any almanac, you will see that there are several minutes more of day than night on the equinox days. The actual day of equal day and night would be several days before the March equinox and after the September equinox. The exact day depending on your lattitude. For more details see - http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/equinoxes.php
That would be the equator.
The summer solstice has the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The winter solstice has the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
The farthest place north of the equator from the equator is the North Pole.
There is no latitude on earth at which the sun would be directly overhead at noon on the equinox and the solstice.
Equator
6 months