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Winter Solstice 2024 Southern Hemisphere. Australia will have its shortest day of the year today when the southern hemisphere experiences the winter solstice. It marks the shortest day and longest night of the year and the first day of the winter in.

The date varies because the gregorian calendar has 365 days, with an extra leap day added in february every. Time and date winter solstice in the northern hemisphere (and summer solstice in the southern hemisphere) occurs on saturday, dec.