When Is The Winter Solstice 2023? This year, in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice will take place on Saturday 21 December 2024. I n the UK, the sun will rise at 8.03 AM and set at 15.53 ...

The exact moment of the winter solstice varies from year to year due to a slight misalignment between the Gregorian calendar and the actual rate of the Earth’s rotation around the sun.

A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day ... Performed live on Woman's Hour. Rain is a more familiar winter weather than snow these days and Don Paterson’s love letter to ...