When are the solstices and equinoxes each year?

Answer 1

The Solstices' are the longest day [June 21 or 22(in northern hemisphere)] and Shortest day in [December 21 or 22(northern hemisphere)]. The Equinoxes happen every 6 months in September 21st and March 21st, they're also another word for Daylight Savings Time.

Answer 2

The solstices occur around June 21st (summer solstice) and December 21st (winter solstice) each year. The equinoxes occur around March 21st (spring equinox) and September 23rd (autumn equinox) each year.

Answer 3

Solstices occur when the sun reaches the highest and lowest points in the sky. The summer solstice is on the 21st June and the winter solstice is on the 21st December.

Equinoxes are different, they occur around 20th March and 22nd September, when the Earth is neither pointing towards the sun or away from it. They are roughly between the solstices. At an equinox, day and night will be roughly the same duration.

Answer 4

The axis of rotation round which the earth spins (a line passing through the middle of the Earth and the North and South poles) is not upright in relation to the plane described by the Earth as it orbits the Sun. The axis is tilted some 23.5 degrees of the vertical.

This means at one part of the orbit the north pole is pointing towards the Sun and 180 degrees round the orbit, it is pointing away form the Sun.

Answer 5

For the northern hemisphere, winter solstice is when the Sun is furthest to the South, summer solstice is when the Sun is furtherst to the North. For the Southern Hemisphere, it is the other way round.

Answer 6

The solstices and equinoxes are points on the map of the stars. Regardless of

where you live, the sun reaches and passes those points at the same times ...

the equinoxes on March 21 and near September 22, and the solstices near June 21

and December 22.

The thing that does depend on your hemisphere is the seasons that begin for you

on each of these dates.

March Equinox:

Northern . . . Spring begins

Southern . . . Fall begins

June Solstice:

Northern . . . Summer

Southern . . . Winter

September Equinox:

Northern . . . Fall

Southern . . . Spring

December Solstice:

Northern . . . Winter

Southern . . . Summer

Answer 7

During the Earth's movement around the Sun, the axis tilt. Four times a year this causes the solstice and equinoxes. These are also called our seasons. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.