Summer Solstice 2021: What Is Solstice? When Is The Year's Longest Day?

Summer Solstice 2021:When is Summer Solstice? What is Solstice? Know why it's a significant astromonical event

The Summer Solstice is traditionally a festive day associated with the beginning of warmer months, longer days, early dawns, late sunsets and shorter nights in the Northern Hemisphere. In the southern half of the globe, it's the beginning of the winter season. Summer Solstice is on June 21. This year Summer Solstice is just a day after Father's Day on June 20. Celebrations and feasts on June Solstice are different in every country. The midsummer celebrations have a long history as well. The solstice is the beginning of the astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It ends with the autumn equinox on September 22. Solstice marks almost equal duration of day and night as the Sun crosses the Line of Equator and moves into the Northern Hemisphere. On June solstice, the Earth is positioned is a way that the North Pole tilts toward the Sun.