PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The first day of winter is coming on Dec. 21, and you might assume that this will be the earliest sunset of the year. But sunsets will actually increase by a few minutes as ...

(So yes, by some definitions, winter started last Sunday.) But it might surprise you to learn the earliest sunset of the year is not on the winter solstice, despite its dark and gloomy reputation.

ST. LOUIS -- A viewer wanted to know why our sunset time is already getting later, even though we haven’t hit the winter solstice. Does this mean the Winter Solstice is not the shortest day of ...

Early Saturday morning, the occurrence of the 2024 winter solstice marked the astronomical start of winter, and it's been greeted with appropriately frigid temperatures. The event also marks the ...

The solstice is at 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, giving us an almost full day of winter to kick things off. Sunrise is at 7:58 a.m., with solar noon not long after at 12:30 p.m. Sunset arrives at 5:02 p ...

Most Americans know that the winter solstice is the shortest day of ... but what they may not realize is that the earliest sunset of 2021 has already taken place. According to multiple websites ...