The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice...

summer and winter solstices, respectively. Terms with no ambiguity as to which hemisphere is the context are "June solstice" and "December solstice", referring...

Look up winter solstice or midwinter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon which marks the shortest day and...

continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's summer....

progresses after the solstice. The earliest sunset and latest sunrise dates outside the polar regions differ from the date of the winter solstice and depend on...

December solstice is the winter solstice (the day with the shortest period of daylight), whilst in the Southern Hemisphere it is the summer solstice (the...

June solstice is the summer solstice (the day with the longest period of daylight), while in the Southern Hemisphere it is the winter solstice (the day...

The Dongzhi Festival or Winter Solstice Festival (Chinese: 冬至; pinyin: Dōngzhì; lit. 'winter's extreme') is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated during...

Winter Solstice is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Josh Sternfeld and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, and Mark Webber. The...

Saturn god Inti Raymi: late June – festival of the Sun in Quechua, winter solstice festival in areas of the former Inca Empire, still celebrated every...

traditions, and fiction. Beira, Queen of Winter, also Cailleach Bheur, a personification or deity of winter in Gaelic mythology Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas;...

Church leadership in Rome to choose December 25, the Roman date of the winter solstice and the birthday of Sol Invictus ('Invincible Sun'), as the birthday...

religious significance. It is aligned so that the rising sun on the winter solstice shines through a "roofbox" above the entrance and floods the inner...

aligned with the winter solstice sunrise and sunset. While commonly referred to as "Yule", after the Germanic and later Northern European winter festival of...

the winter solstice, though actually it occurred on the 22nd or 23rd at that time. Nowadays the astronomical timing has winter starting at the winter solstice...

has sometimes been misunderstood as synonymous with the astronomical winter solstice, which the word also can refer to in contemporary English. Midwinter...

century, the church fixed the date as December 25, the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar. It is nine months after Annunciation on March...

talmudic hypothesis that Adam instituted the custom of fasting before the winter solstice and rejoicing afterwards – an observance that devolved into Saturnalia...

from December 21, 2024 to March 20, 2025. The season begins at the winter solstice which will occur on December 21, 2024, and it will end at the spring...

Ancient Persians celebrated the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice through a variety of different festivals and traditions...

with the exception of Winter Solstice. Winter Solstice (the longest night and shortest day of the year) or Yule (Winter solstice, around 21–22 December...

in the Vikram Sambat (B.S) or Yele calendar marking the end of the winter solstice and the month of Poush. The Tharu people celebrate this day as their...

5 degrees of latitude of the Pole, and there only on dates close to the winter solstice. At all other latitudes and dates, the polar night includes a daily...

mother's necklace is missing, found by Zuko back on the fortress. 7 7 "Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World" Lauren MacMullan Aaron Ehasz Jerry Langford...

decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the winter solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One...

The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at which, on the winter solstice (which is the shortest day of the year) in the Northern Hemisphere...

moon nearest the winter solstice. Song's Yin calendar (殷曆; 殷历) began its year on the day of the new moon after the winter solstice. After Qin Shi Huang...

Scandinavia adopted the new calendar, with the Winter solstice falling on 9 December. The Winter solstice is not visibly shorter than the several days leading...

carefully aligned on a sight-line pointing to the winter solstice sunrise (Newgrange) and the winter solstice sunset (Stonehenge). It is significant that the...

The word solstice (Irish grianstad) means sun-standstill. The conception of Aengus may represent the 'rebirth' of the sun at the winter solstice, him taking...