Winter solstice 2020

When is the Winter solstice 2020?

What is the Winter solstice?

A winter solstice is the moment in time when the Earth's tilt away from the Sun is at its maximum and the Sun's maximum elevation in the sky is at its lowest.

A winter solstice occurs twice a year, once in December in the Northern Hemisphere (also called December solstice and Midwinter) and once in June in the Southern Hemisphere (also called June solstice).

In the Northern Hemisphere the day of the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year (the day with the least daylight and the longest night) and occurs every year between December 20 and December 23. The dates given on this page are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which for practical purposes is equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, the time the United Kingdom is on during the winter, when it isn't on summer time). While the winter solstice occurs at the same moment in time all over the world, the date and local time differ from place to place depending on the year and a location's time zone. For locations that are ahead of UTC (further east) it may fall on the day after, and for locations that are behind UTC (further west) it may fall on the day before. To find out the exact date and time of the winter solstice 2020 in your area use this seasons calculator.

The winter solstice marks the end of autumn and the beginning of winter in the hemisphere where it occurs and is one of four days (two equinoxes and two solstices) throughout the year on which a new season starts. The other days are the vernal equinox (also called spring equinox, beginning of spring), the summer solstice (beginning of summer) and the autumnal equinox (also called fall equinox, beginning of autumn).

For more information see Winter solstice on Wikipedia.

When is the Winter solstice 2021?

Dates for the Winter solstice from 2015 to 2025

The next occurrence of the Winter solstice is marked in red.

When is ...?	Date	Day of the week	Days away
Winter solstice 2015	December 22, 2015	Tuesday	1559 days ago
Winter solstice 2016	December 21, 2016	Wednesday	1194 days ago
Winter solstice 2017	December 21, 2017	Thursday	829 days ago
Winter solstice 2018	December 21, 2018	Friday	464 days ago
Winter solstice 2019	December 22, 2019	Sunday	98 days ago
Winter solstice 2020	December 21, 2020	Monday	in 266 days
Winter solstice 2021	December 21, 2021	Tuesday	in 631 days
Winter solstice 2022	December 21, 2022	Wednesday	in 996 days
Winter solstice 2023	December 22, 2023	Friday	in 1362 days
Winter solstice 2024	December 21, 2024	Saturday	in 1727 days
Winter solstice 2025	December 21, 2025	Sunday	in 2092 days
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