On the solstice, the District enjoys over 14 hours and 40 minutes of daylight. The earliest sunset of this past winter was 4:45 in December. As sunsets get later, sunrises also get earlier.

The solstice is at 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, giving us an almost full day of winter to kick things off. Sunrise is at 7:58 a.m., with solar noon not long after at 12:30 p.m. Sunset arrives at 5:02 p ...

In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is on June 20 or 21. RELATED: Eliminating daylight saving time could mean dramatic changes to sunrise, sunset times Winter solstice is the start of ...

Winter is coming ... at 9:28 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, to be exact. That’s the time of the 2017 winter solstice in Phoenix. It's the start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere unless you're a ...

Early Saturday morning, the occurrence of the 2024 winter solstice marked the astronomical start of winter, and it's been greeted with appropriately frigid temperatures. The event also marks the ...

Winter is still technically still around the corner, despite what the snowy weather and omnipresent holiday jingles would have you think. That’s because winter’s astronomical start in the ...

For people in the Southern Hemisphere, their winter solstice is in June, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. Why is it getting dark so early When sunrise and sunset fall has to do with the tilt ...

Astronomical seasons are determined by the Earth's position in its orbit around the sun, with the winter solstice marking ... for nearly two weeks, with sunset moving to 4:20 p.m. on Dec. 14 ...