by Anura Guruge
on December 9, 2022
Sunrise & Sunset Times for Concord, New Hampshire
for December 2022.
(From Time-and-Date).
Kind of a strange concept to grapple with. The EARLIEST SUNSETS in New Hampshire happen around NOW — 2-weeks ahead of the Winter Solstice.
That doesn’t mean we have as yet seen our SHORTEST DAY (my favorite day of the year) as yet. That still happens on December 21 — the Winter Solstice.
So, what gives.
Sunrise is still getting LATER & LATER. That is what SHORTENS the overall hours of daylight.
You can see this from the above table — with my annotations.
The shortening (or the lengthening) of days are NOT symmetrical — i.e., sunrise & sunset are not in lock steps. So, after December 14 sunsets start becoming LATER, but so do sunrises. Sunrises don’t start to get EARLIER till mid-January! So, the increase in daylight, post the solstice, is all due to sunsets happening later. Weird, but that is how it works.
