Summer Equinox 2024. Is it really the longest day of the year? As with the spring equinox this is a point of seasonal equilibrium with days and nights being almost exactly 12 hours long each.
In 2024, the summer solstice will occur at 4:50 p.m. Summer solstice 2024 (beginning of astronomical summer) on the day of the summer (june) solstice, the solar disk, moving along the ecliptic, will fall into its northernmost point and will be located at the maximum distance north of the celestial equator.