For ease of recordkeeping, meteorologists and climatologists consider June 1 the first day of summer, but astronomically speaking, the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude) is aligned ...

Solstice 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere will occur on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:42 PM EDT, which is Saturday, June 21, 2025, at 8:12 AM IST.

While looking across the entirety of the tropics, there are some changing signs that the Atlantic may be getting ready to ...

To be more precise, when the solstice occurs the sun will appear to be shining directly overhead for a point on the Tropic of Cancer (latitude 23.5 degrees north) in the western Pacific Ocean ...

The Summer Solstice is when the earth’s tilt (always at 23.5 degrees) toward the sun is at its maximum. At solar noon, the sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer which is located at a latitude ...

When it’s a summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun appears directly over the Tropic of Cancer, the latitude line at 23.5 degrees North. (That’s as far north as you can go and ...

P.A. Kidwell, "The astrolabe for latitude 41°N of Simeon de Witt: an early American celestial planisphere," Imago Mundi, 2009, 61, pp. 91-96. Location Currently not on view Credit Line Transfer from ...

Tropic of Cancer: On the Summer Solstice, the Sun's rays are directly overhead (perpendicular) at 23.5 degrees North latitude, a line we call the Tropic of Cancer.