December Solstice (Winter Solstice) was on Saturday, December 21, 2019 in Reykjavik.
At 22:23 tonight, the earth will have tilted as far away from the sun as it’s going to this year, marking the shortest day of the year. For those of us in Reykjavík, that means that the sunlight today will only last four hours and seven minutes.
Count your blessings, though: in Akureyri, on the north coast, they will only see three hours and four minutes of sunlight, and on the isle of Grímsey, which straddles the Arctic Circle, they can expect a paltry two hours of sunlight, give or take a couple minutes.
Compounding the darkness is the fact that this day will in fact be 24 hours and 30 seconds long, as the standard clock does not completely accurately reflect the true time it take for the planet to make a single rotation, cruelly taunting us with an extra half minute of darkness.
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