What is the longest and shortest day of the year in canada?

Answer 1

The summer solstice (June 21) is the longest day of the year in the North, and the shortest in the South. The winter solstice (December 21) is the longest day of the year in the South, and the shortest in the North.

Answer 2

That depends where on earth you're located.

You asked for it. Here it is:

Northern hemisphere, between 23.5 and 66.5 north latitude:

-- December 21 is the shortest.

-- June 21 is the longest.

Northern hemisphere, within 23.5 degrees of the north pole:

-- Longest night is longer than 24 hours, centered on December 21.

-- Longest day is longer than 24 hours, centered on June 21.

-- Exact lengths depend on how far from the north pole you are.

At the north pole:

-- Sun is down from September 21 until March 21.

-- Sun is up from March 21 until September 21.

Southern hemisphere, between 23.5 and 66.5 south latitude:

-- June 21 is the shortest.

-- December 21 is the longest.

Southern hemisphere, within 23.5 degrees of the south pole:

-- Longest night is longer than 24 hours, centered on June 21.

-- Longest day is longer than 24 hours, centered on December 21.

-- Exact lengths depend on how far from the south pole you are.

At the south pole:

-- Sun is down from March 21 until September 21.

-- Sun is up from September 21 until March 21.

Exactly on the equator:

-- Two equal shortest days: June 21 and September 21.

-- Two equal longest days: March 21 and September 21.

Within 23.5 degrees north of the equator:

-- One shortest day on December 21.

-- Two equal longest days between March 21 and September 21, with their dates

depending on your latitude, at equal periods either side of June 21.

-- If you're right on the line at 23.5 degrees, you have one longest day, on June 21.

Within 23.5 degrees south of the equator:

-- One shortest day on June 21.

-- Two equal longest days between September 21 and March 21, with their dates

depending on your latitude, at equal periods either side of December 21.

-- If you're right on the line at 23.5 degrees, you have one longest day, on December 21.

Note:

Each equinox and solstice can wander a day or two from the "21st" of the

indicated month. It's not the equinoxes and solstices that are wandering.

It's our calendar, plus the fact that at the moment of the equinox or solstice ...

as well as any other moment during the earth's rotation ... there are generally

two different calendar dates on the surface of the earth as a whole.

Answer 3

The longest and shortest days of the year in Canada are the same as they are

everywhere else in the northern hemisphere at the Summer and Winter "Solstices"

(June 21 and December 21 respectively). Summer is the longest and winter the

shortest.

The exact date can vary, but only by a day or so.

Answer 4

The solstices occur on June 21 and December 21, plus or minus a day either way because of the cycle of leap years. In the northern hemisphere, June 21 is the beginning of Summer, and December 21 is the beginning of winter. These are reversed in the southern hemisphere.

North of the Arctic Circle (or south of the Antarctic Circle) there are times when the Sun is up 24 hours in the day and the same at night. But the Solstice dates are the at the center of the daylight/nighttime periods.

Answer 5

That depends on how far north you are; the further north, the shorter the "shortest day" will be. There are areas in Canada that are above the Arctic Circle, so there can be weeks around the winter solstice from the time the Sun sets and the time it rises again.

See the links below, which will allow you to see the times of sunrise/sunset for any location you choose.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php

Answer 6

The longest period of daylight happens at the summer solstice. The shortest day occurs at the winter solstice.

Answer 7

The longest day is the end of daylight saving day Nov 7 because its 25 hours and the shortest is the end of daylight savings on March 14th because its actually only 23 hours

Answer 8

December 21, the winter solstice, is the shortest day of the year for all of the northern hemisphere.