The Longest Day of the Year
By Charles Apple The Spokesman-Review
Today will be the longest day of 2019 in and around Spokane. Daylight hours today will last just 23 seconds shy of 16 hours — which will be 7 hours and 34 minutes longer than the shortest day of the year, our winter solstice on Dec. 21.
This chart shows the effect the Earth’s annual trip around the sun has had — and will have — on us Earthlings in 2019 here in the Inland Northwest.
AP Photo/The Daily Messenger, Rikki Van Camp
1
Latest Sunrise
Jan. 1, 7:38 a.m.
2
Perihelion
Earth's closest approach to the Sun
Jan. 2, 9:19 p.m.
3
Daylight Saving Time began
March 10, 2 a.m.
4
Nearly equal light and dark
March 17
11 hours, 59 minutes, and 2 seconds of daylight.
5
Spring equinox
March 20, 2:58 p.m.
6
Earliest sunrise
June 16, 4:51 a.m.
7
Summer solstice
June 21, 8:54 a.m.
15 hours, 59 minutes, and 37 seconds of daylight.
8
Latest sunsets
June 25-26, 8:51 p.m.
9
Aphelion
Earth's greatest distance from the Sun
July 4, 3:10 p.m.
10
Fall equinox
Sept. 23, 12:50 a.m.
11
Nearly equal light and dark
Sept. 25
12 hours, 1 minute, and 9 seconds of daylight.
12
Daylight Saving Time ends
Nov. 3, 2 a.m.
13
Earliest sunset
Dec. 11, 3:57 p.m.
14
Winter solstice
Dec. 21
8 hours, 25 minutes, and 8 seconds of daylight.