Winter Solstice 2024 Countdown. “solstice” comes from the latin word for “sun stand still” because the sun will reach its highest point at noon on. 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 spring.
How many days until winter? But the winter solstice has a lot more to it than you may know.
