Shortest Day Of The Year 202 2024. Winter solstice is the shortest day of year, longest night of the year and the official first day of winter in the northern hemisphere. There’s still a little while to go before the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.

This is when the north pole is tilted farthest away from the sun, resulting in the least amount of. Why doesn’t the earliest sunset come on the shortest day?