Summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Here's why it can occur on June 20, June 21 or June 22. Plus: Solstice 2025 events in metro Phoenix.

The Summer Solstice occurred at 4:50 pm today (Thursday June 20, 2024). ... (Barrow), Alaska – from Andrei Taranchenko. This picture shows the sun at midnight local time in Utqiaqvik, Alaska .

Summer Solstice celebrations continued into the weekend in Downtown Anchorage, where the annual Summer Solstice Festival was ...

In Barrow, now known as Utqiaġvik, the northernmost town in Alaska, the sun doesn’t set at all for about 82 days, from roughly May 11 to Aug. 1. This phenomenon is called the Midnight Sun .

Summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Here's why it can occur on June 20, June 21 or June 22. Plus: Solstice 2025 events in metro Phoenix.

In central Alaska the summer solstice—the longest day of the year and the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere—heralds a time of nearly endless daylight.

The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere will occur at 4:50 p.m. ET on June 20, 2024, ... In Fairbanks, Alaska, people watch a baseball game under the midnight sun.