Summer Solstice 2024 Meaning In English. When is the summer solstice 2024? Today (june 20) the summer solstice — the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere — will begin, and it will be the earliest solstice in 228 years.

The sun will rise at 4.43am. This year summer solstice falls on thursday, june 20 at precisely 9.51pm in the uk.