Winter Solstice 2024 Southern Hemisphere. Winter solstice takes place on december 21, 2024, in the northern hemisphere and on june 21, 2025, in the southern hemisphere. A solstice is the day when the sun is at its highest or lowest point in the sky.
Known as the winter solstice, this is the time that darkness takes up as much time as it can, before gradually giving way to the growing daylight of. In the southern hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs when the south pole faces furthest from the sun.