The June Solstice 2024 Brings Changing Seasons on Earth on June 20 – What You Need to Know

Summer will officially arrive in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday (June 20) at 4:51 PM EDT (2051 GMT) - the June solstice.

At that moment, the sun will reach the point where it is farthest north of the celestial equator. To be more precise, when the solstice occurs, the sun will appear to be shining directly overhead, at a point on the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude) in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 1,100 miles southwest of Los Angeles. Angeles.

From mid-northern latitudes we can never see the sun directly overhead, but (as an example) as ...