In the Gregorian calendar June is the sixth month of the year. In 2022 Sivan, the third (3rd) month in the Biblical Sacred Calendar, and the eleventh (11th) in Biblical Civil Calendar falls in May/June. This is the season when harvest begins in the northern hemisphere even as the winter season starts towards the tropic of Capricorn in the southern Hemisphere. The June Solstice this year is on June 21, 2022, at 09:13 UTC. This ushers in the summer gate. In this season the sun is positioned directly over the tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere. This results in the phenomenon known as the Summer Solstice or the high summer in the northern hemisphere. A solstice occurs when the sun’s zenith is at its furthest point from the equator. On the June solstice, it reaches its northernmost point and the Earth’s North Pole tilts directly towards the sun, at about 23.4 degrees. This is also known as the northern solstice since it takes place when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.

June 21, 2022, records the longest daylight hours and the shortest night-time hours of 2022. In some areas of the northern hemisphere, they experience sunlight for up to 23 hours. The southern hemisphere experiences the winter solstice during that same day recording the shortest daylight hours and longest nighttime hours.

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