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Winter solstice 2020: Why do pagans celebrate the shortest day of the year?
During the winter solstice, the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the Sun, delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year
21 December 2020 • 4:05pm
Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, is carefully aligned on a sight-line that points to the winter solstice sunset
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The December solstice happens at the same instant for everyone, everywhere on Earth – and this year the winter solstice occurs on Monday December 21, at 10:02 GMT in the Northern Hemisphere.
The winter solstice happens every year when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.4 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the Sun, delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice? Traditions and Stonehenge relevance
TODAY is the shortest day of the year with the Winter Solstice sun setting at 3.53pm.
But how do people mark this day and what is the meaning behind it? Let’s take a closer look…
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What is the Winter Solstice?
It marks the day of the year with the fewest sunlight hours, or simply the shortest day in the year.
The word solstice literally means, in Latin, that the sun is standing still.
That s because it marks the point when one of the Earth s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun.