Summer Solstice 2023 (Longest Day of the Year 2023): When is Estival Solstice, Date, Fact

The summer solstice 2023 occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It was also known as the midsummer or Estival Solstice. While there are plenty of other details that add to the uniqueness of this day. You can’t choose a particular time frame for such a moment, but it really is a day when the North Hemisphere’s summertime begins in earnest.

Each year, it occurs during June 20 and June 22 and the summer solstice 2023 will occur on June 21, 2023 . There will be approximately 16 hours and 38 minutes of daylight. This is also known as December Solstice inside the Southern Hemisphere since it occurs in December.

Longest Day of the Year 2023 Date

Event	Summer Solstice 2023
Summer Solstice 2023 Date	June 21, 2023
Day	Wednesday

Summer Solstice Meaning

In the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice (also known as summer solstice) occurs when the Sun approaches its greatest and northern points in the sky. Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere. (The June solstice happens in the Southern Hemisphere when the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky, signalling the start of winter.)

The term “solstice” is derived from the Latin solstitium (Sun + stitium) (still or stopped). The Sun does not rise and set simultaneously places on the horizon each morning and evening owing to Earth’s axis of rotation; its rise and set positions in the sky shift northward or southward as Earth moves around the Sun during the year. During the year, the Sun’s path in the sky changes, either higher or lower. The June solstice is important because it is at this time that the Sun reaches its northernmost position in the sky, when its course remains unchanged for a short period of time.

The Sun seems to turn around after the solstice and travel in the other direction. The visible route of the Sun as seen in the sky at the same time each day, for example, at local noon, is the motion referred to here. Its route creates an analemma, a squished estimate eight, over the course of a year. The Sun, of course, isn’t really changing (until you count its own orbit around the Milky Way galaxy); instead, the inclination of Earth’s axis as it circles the Sun, and also Earth’s elliptical, instead of spherical, orbit, create the shift in point in the sky that we on Earth observe.

Summer Solstice 2023 Important Facts

You can identify the precise time and day of the Summer Solstice since everything is based about how the sun moves. The Summer Solstice happens when the sun reaches the equator’s greatest edge.
Although it is the longest day ever, it is really the day that the sun shines the fullest. This happens in the Northern Hemisphere.
The sunshine crosses Saudi Arabia, Guatemala, India, Palestine, and Southeast Asia somewhere above the Tropics of Cancer and capricorn.

See other important days of June

Summer Solstice Rituals

This day has been celebrated with great respect since the Stone Age. People light campfires and distribute the ashes equally over their lands. They think it will provide a bountiful crop as well as stave against bad forces.

Mostly on summer solstice, you won’t be able to view the full moon, and if you can, it will be reddish in colour. Strawberry Moon is the name of the moon.

Summer Solstice 2023 Quotes

“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.” (Truman Capote)
“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp — everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.” (E.B. White)
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.” (Harper Lee)
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ( Scott Fitzgerald)