"It's a good time to meet someone, because all the young people in the village go, and it's a good opportunity to socialize. Even the night doesn't get that dark. Call it sensuality. Residents of the city celebrate their many hours of daylight and nights that don't get fully dark this time of year with the White Nights Festival.This NASA photo shows the summer solstice from 2018. When the sun reaches its apex in the Northern Hemisphere, that's the summer solstice.At that time, "the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, which is located at 23.5° latitude North, and runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and southern China," It's going to be a really big celestial weekend for some people in the Eastern Hemisphere. Time to go out to connect and to have fun. The summer solstice, also known as estival solstice or midsummer, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. During the annular solar eclipse, the moon is farthest from the earth and leaves a thin solar disc or a "ring of fire" effect while blocking the sun, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).The phenomenon would be observed as a partial solar eclipse in the country, with the northernmost parts of Luzon having the best view.In Metro Manila, the eclipse will start at 3:01 p.m. until 5:31 p.m., with its maximum at 4:23 p.m., Ghela Quiron from the Space Science and Astronomy section of PAGASA previously said.Itbayat town in Batanes and Tuguegarao in Cagayan province will have the best view of the eclipse, with the moon obscuring the sun at 91 percent visibility, the weather bureau added.PAGASA reminded the public to use binoculars and telescopes with solar filters to avoid eye damage.Summer solstice also falls on Sunday, wherein the country will have the shortest night and longest daytime, PAGASA added.The last annular solar eclipse was seen in the country on © 2015 Nine Media Corp. CNN name, logo and all associated elements ™ and © 2015 Cable News Network.
MANILA — It will be a long day on Wednesday (June 21), literally, as Summer Solstice falls around noontime on that day. The village's unmarried women all place a personal belonging in the pot and leave it under a fig tree overnight, where -- folklore has it -- the magic of the day imbues the objects with prophetic powers, and the girls in question dream of their future husbands. In Singapore, a Northern Hemisphere city-state but one just barely above the equator, people barely notice the difference. In most locations north of Equator, the longest day of the year is around this date. Fanariotou said the festival often results in coupling. Plus, all the men like to show off, and make the biggest fire they can to jump through. In terms of daylight, this day is 1 hour, 43 minutes longer than on December Solstice. 12 hours. On Saturday, June 20, 2020, the solstice will occur as the Earth's north pole reaches its maximum tilt towards the Sun. In Eastern Europe, solstice celebrations fall on Ivan Kupala Day -- a holiday with romantic connotations for many Slavs ("kupala" is derived from the same … Like many other events in 2020, it's having to alter traditions because of the pandemic.While the usual in-person gathering is on hold, you'll be able to live stream sunset on June 20 and sunrise on June 21 at the site of these precisely arranged giant stones on Talk about a short night. And the differences in how much daylight you get become very dramatic as you get closer to the poles and farther from the equator. Exactly when is the summer solstice in 2020? ... Manila, Philippines Image copyright AFP Chiayi, Taiwan ... 13-19 June 2020 . This will happen only once again this century: on June 21, 2039. "All druid rituals have an element of fertility, and the solstice is no exception," King Arthur Pendragon, a senior archdruid, told CNN. Don't miss out on the latest news and information. So it should come as no surprise that the solstice is linked to fertility -- both of the plant and human variety -- in It will happen at 21:43 UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) on Saturday, June 20. If you're in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States, that's 5:43 p.m. June 20.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All rights reserved. In fact, all of Asia will observe the solstice on June 21. There are historical pictures of people drinking to the point where they can't go on anymore," said Swahn. For example, in 2016, the summer solstice took place at 6:34 p.m. EDT — less than an hour later than this year’s solstice. Join us on a 12-month journey to see them all At the summer solstice, we have the longest day and the shortest night of the year. But the amount of sunlight we get in the Northern Hemisphere has been increasing daily ever since.