Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.

This lively holiday was a time for honoring their Roman god Saturn and embracing pagan winter solstice traditions. Originally held on December 17, the festivities were so beloved that they were ...

In contrast, the Southern Hemisphere is entering the winter solstice at this ... have specific traditions to honor the summer solstice. The residents of Nome, for example, plunge into the Bering ...

In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 December. The solstice is a cause for celebration in some places and cultures, as BBC Bitesize found out. Soyal is the winter solstice ...

It, therefore, recognized 21 June as the International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice ... and December 21 (commonly known as "Winter Solstice" for being the first day of winter and ...

and the sunset on the winter solstice, and to take part in the same kind of rituals and traditions that may have happened at the site for thousands of years. Around the summer solstice ...

Alongside the miracle of light from Hanukkah, I grew up celebrating Shab-e Yalda, the ancient Persian winter solstice tradition ... a reclamation of two traditions, thousands of years old.

(The opposite holds true for the Southern Hemisphere, where June brings the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.) Read on for some more intriguing facts about the summer solstice.

The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, falls on Friday, June 20, 2025, while the winter solstice, the shortest day, occurs on Sunday, December 21, 2025. Ready for winter to be over?

The UK’s most famous site for solstice celebrations is Stonehenge. On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local ...