![]() ![]() So, throughout the year, different parts of Earth get the sun’s direct rays,” explains NASA. “As Earth orbits the sun, its tilted axis always points in the same direction. But this axis tilts – at an angle of 23.5 degrees. That’s because the Earth is aligned on an axis, an imaginary pole going through the center of our planet. But the amount of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere has been increasing daily ever since. Why don’t we just get 12 hours of daylight all year? Folks all over the planet actually did get nearly equal doses of day and night back during the spring equinox. They’ll get almost 22 hours of daylight, and blackout curtains might be in order. The denizens of Fairbanks in central interior Alaska can scoff at those 19 hours. Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB/AFP/Getty Imagesīut residents of northerly Helsinki, Finland, will get a 3:54 a.m. After their long, dark, cold winters, people in Norway like to make the most of their summer days. They get a measly extra six and a half minutes of daylight.Ī floating bonfire marks midsummer celebrations as people enjoy the water in the Oslo Fjord by Bjorvika on June 23, 2022. ![]() In Ecuador’s capital of Quito, barely north of the equator, people barely notice the difference. Who gets the most sunlight? The differences in how much daylight you get become very dramatic as you get closer to the poles and farther from the equator. Your time zone in relation to UTC determines the time and even the date that the solstice happens for you. When is the 2023 summer solstice exactly? It will fall at 14:58 UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) on June 21. People south of equator in places such as Chile, South Africa and Australia are having their winter solstice and the shortest day of the year there. It’s only in the Northern Hemisphere, where almost 90% of the world’s population lives. Is summer solstice all over the world? No. The sun sets behind the Oculus transit hub and One World Trade Center in New York City on the summer solstice in 2019. ![]()
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