Question

What is the winter solstice?

Answer 1

The winter solstice , also known as midwinter occurs when one of the earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the sun.

Answer 2

It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere.Winter solstice, also called hibernal solstice, the two moments during the year when the path of the Sun in the sky is farthest south in the Northern Hemisphere (December 21 or 22) and farthest north in the Southern Hemisphere (June 20 or 21). ... …20 or 21 and the winter solstice on December 21 or 22.