{"id":318660,"date":"2026-06-24T21:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:55:13","slug":"when-to-expect-the-latest-sunsets-of-the-year-across-the-first-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318660\/","title":{"rendered":"When to expect the latest sunsets of the year across the First Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Those long summer nights are officially here!<\/p>\n<p>The latest sunset time, 8:32 p.m., started on June 23 and will continue through July 7; However, during that time, our sunrises are later, so our days are still getting shorter.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of July, the sunset time will fall all the way back to 8:21 p.m. And sunsets will occur again in the 7 p.m. hour by August 23.<\/p>\n<p>The latest sunset does not line up with the longest day of the year, the summer solstice (which occurred on June 21), because of the Earth\u2019s tilt on its axis and its elliptical orbit around the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Earth is tilted and its orbit is an imperfect circle, this means our local time doesn\u2019t match up with solar time. Our days consist of 24 hours, but solar days can be longer by a number of seconds due to the spin of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b791d321-43e8-4479-9699-ed56be01aa6d_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Those long summer nights are officially here! The latest sunset time, 8:32 p.m., started on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-318660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}