Summer Solstice 2024 Uk. In 2025 the summer solstice will occur on saturday 21 june at 03.42 bst (02.42 gmt). Summer solstice 2024 (beginning of astronomical summer) on the day of the summer (june) solstice, the solar disk, moving along the ecliptic, will fall into its northernmost point and will be located at the maximum distance north of the celestial equator.

This is the first day of astronomical summer and occurs as the sun reaches its most northerly or southerly path in the sky. Hundreds of people gathered at the summit of glastonbury tor on the morning of saturday, december 21, 2024, to celebrate the winter solstice, which took place at 9.21am.