{"id":1247778,"date":"2025-06-17T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/summer-solstice-what-is-it-and-when-to-expect-the-astronomical-event\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:40:14","slug":"summer-solstice-what-is-it-and-when-to-expect-the-astronomical-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/summer-solstice-what-is-it-and-when-to-expect-the-astronomical-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice: What is it and when to expect the astronomical event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. In 2025, it falls on Saturday, June 21, and will occur at 05:41 Kyiv time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The summer solstice is a special event when the Earth experiences the shortest night of the year. After this date, the days will gradually begin to shorten, and the nights will increase. The summer solstice among the Slavs had many customs and beliefs that have survived to this day.<\/p>\n<p> The summer solstice is when the Sun is at its northernmost point in its motion in the northern hemisphere and appears to be stationary all day. In the southern hemisphere, the Sun is at its southernmost point. In the northern hemisphere, this event marks the beginning of astronomical summer, and in the southern hemisphere, winter.<\/p>\n<p> In the Northern Hemisphere in the 21st century, the summer solstice occurs on June 20 or 21. On this day, the Sun appears to freeze at its zenith and not move anywhere throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. In 2025, it falls on Saturday, June 21, and will occur at 05:41 Kyiv time. The summer solstice is a special event when the Earth experiences the shortest night of the year. After this date, the days will gradually begin to shorten, and the nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1247800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1247778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1247800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}