Friday is the Summer Solstice for 2025, which is the typically longest day of the year for the northern hemisphere. But will you have two longest days? As the Sun makes its daily passage through ...

On Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:42 PM EDT, or Saturday, June 21, 2025, at 8:12 AM IST (or 2:42 AM GMT), the Northern Hemisphere will experience the Summer Solstice 2025.

For example, the 2021 northern summer solstice occurred on June 20 at 11:32 p.m. EDT, then it was 5:13 a.m. EDT on June 21 in 2022, and 10:57 a.m. EDT on June 21, 2023.

This year, the exact moment of the summer solstice occurs onFriday, June 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. EDT, which corresponds toSaturday, June 21, 2025, at 02:42 UTC.

Summer will officially arrive on Friday in what is known as the Summer Solstice. At 10:42 p.m. EDT on June 20 (0242 GMT on June 21), the sun will reach that point where it is farthest north of the ...

The 2025 summer solstice arrives at 10:42 p.m. EDT on June 20 (0242 GMT June 21). On this day, skywatchers across the northern hemisphere will enjoy the longest stretch of daylight all year.

Midsummer celebrations on the island of Gotland, Sweden, on June 20, 2025, marking the summer solstice with flower crowns, dancing, and maypole raising. Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/ AFP via Getty ...

BOSTON, June 19, 2024/PRNewswire/ -- The summer solstice offers the greatest opportunity to obtain the healing properties of sunlight because it is the longest day of the year.

In Raleigh, the earliest sunrise of 2025 occurred June 12 at 5:57 a.m., while sunsets will continue shifting later by a few seconds each day until Sunday, June 28.