Summer Solstice
The June solstice: the Sun reaches its farthest north and the day is longest in the northern hemisphere. In the Panchang the Sun turns south (Dakshinayana) only at Karka Sankranti, about three weeks later, because the sidereal zodiac has moved with the precession of the equinoxes.
June solstice (Summer solstice)
- Moment
- Thursday, 21 Jun 2018, 15:37
- At
- New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Sunrise
- 05:23
- Sunset
- 19:21
- Day length
- 13 h 57 min
Dakshinayana (Karka Sankranti)
- Sankranti
- The Sun enters Cancer at 16 Jul 2018, 22:26; after sunset, so observed the next day
Times are local to New Delhi, Delhi, India, worked out with the sidereal (Lahiri) zodiac. Sunrise and sunset are for the upper edge of the Sun with normal refraction.