{"id":334408,"date":"2026-03-17T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:08:09","slug":"what-and-when-is-the-2026-spring-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334408\/","title":{"rendered":"What and when is the 2026 spring equinox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Earth&#8217;s axis is tilted by 23.5 degrees and that tilt in relation to the Sun changes on its orbit around the Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the equinox the Earth&#8217;s reaches a point when the tilt is neither towards nor away from the Sun and we have equal sunlight reaching the northern and southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The word &#8220;equinox&#8221; comes from Latin, where equi means &#8220;equal&#8221; and nox means &#8220;night&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On this day it would be easy to assume that day and night would be of equal length of 12 hours each. However, that is not entirely correct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK, 12 hours of daylight and night time comes a few days before the equinox &#8211;  the equilux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Earth&#8217;s axis is tilted by 23.5 degrees and that tilt in relation to the Sun changes on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-334408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}