{"id":651574,"date":"2026-06-22T03:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651574\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T03:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:52:18","slug":"the-summer-solstice-dawns-over-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651574\/","title":{"rendered":"The summer solstice dawns over Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Sunday 21 June 2026 is the summer solstice when the hours of daylight outnumber the hours of darkness. In Edinburgh sunrise was at 4.26am. Sunset will be at 10.02pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photographer Tom Duffin was up in the early hours to capture the sunrise over the capital on what promises to be another sunny day.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" data-attachment-id=\"649573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/uk-weather-summer-solstice-behind-edinburgh\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5615-2x1-web.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"UK Weather: Summer Solstice Behind Edinburgh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Sunrise on the Summer Solstice behind Edinburgh\u2019s skyline marking the start of the longest day beginning at 04:26hrs and ending with sunset at 22:02hrs. Tom Duffin Photographer&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5615-2x1-web.jpg?fit=696%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5615-2x1-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-649573\"  \/>Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Sunrise on the Summer Solstice behind Edinburgh\u2019s skyline marking the start of the longest day beginning at 04:26hrs and ending with sunset at 22:02hrs. Tom Duffin Photographer<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" data-attachment-id=\"649574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/uk-weather-summer-solstice-behind-edinburgh-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5615-web.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"UK Weather: Summer Solstice Behind Edinburgh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Sunrise on the Summer Solstice behind Edinburgh\u2019s skyline marking the start of the longest day beginning at 04:26hrs and ending with sunset at 22:02hrs. Tom Duffin Photographer&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5615-web.jpg?fit=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5615-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-649574\"  \/>Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Tom Duffin Photographer<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" data-attachment-id=\"649575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/uk-weather-summer-solstice-behind-edinburgh-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5622-Tighter-web.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"UK Weather: Summer Solstice Behind Edinburgh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Sunrise on the Summer Solstice behind Edinburgh\u2019s skyline marking the start of the longest day beginning at 04:26hrs and ending with sunset at 22:02hrs. Tom Duffin Photographer&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5622-Tighter-web.jpg?fit=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5622-Tighter-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-649575\"  \/>Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Tom Duffin Photographer<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" data-attachment-id=\"649576\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/uk-weather-summer-solstice-behind-edinburgh-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5622-web.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"UK Weather: Summer Solstice Behind Edinburgh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Edinburgh, 21st June 2026. Sunrise on the Summer Solstice behind Edinburgh\u2019s skyline marking the start of the longest day beginning at 04:26hrs and ending with sunset at 22:02hrs. Tom Duffin Photographer&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5622-web.jpg?fit=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midsummer-Torphin-Jun-2026-5622-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-649576\"  \/>Edinburgh, 21st June 2026.   Tom Duffin Photographer<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, Sunday 21 June 2026 is the summer solstice when the hours of daylight outnumber the hours of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[208287,208288,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-edinburgh-local-news","tag-edinburgh-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}