The ancient Stonehenge monument near Salisbury in Wiltshire was aligned on a sight-line that points to the winter solstice sunset. It is thought that the winter solstice was actually more ...

Washington, D.C., has 9 hours and 26 minutes of daylight on the winter solstice, with sunrise at 7:23 a.m. and sunset at 4:49 p.m. Why are the earliest sunset and latest sunrise not on the winter ...

The winter solstice is a ... correspond with the earliest sunset. For example, sunset on December 8 in New York was at 4:28 p.m. ET, but on the solstice, it will be four minutes later, at 4: ...