Don’t miss two eclipses and a meteor shower in Summer 2026
According to timeanddate.comHowever, when you monitor dawn and sundown all the way down to the second, your longest day of the yr for 2026 will rely on precisely the place you reside.
Across Canada, from coast to coast to coast, June 21 is decisively the longest day of the yr. However, scattered communities inside every time zone haven’t one longest day, however two, and one thing uncommon happens in the far northwest.
In Atlantic Canada, Sydney, NS, and Moncton, NB, for instance, each have their longest days on June 20 AND June 21. Same goes for Granby and Montreal, in Quebec, in addition to Ottawa, Peterborough, Hamilton, Kitchener, Guelph, London, North Bay, Sault Ste Marie, and Thunder Bay in Ontario.
In the western half of the nation, Gimli and Flin Flon, Man., have their longest days on each the twentieth and twenty first, regardless of communities to the north and south having it solely on the twenty first. Also, whereas Regina, Saskatoon, and Edmonton have their longest day on the twenty first, Calgary has it on the twentieth and twenty first, together with most of British Columbia.
Strangely, some communities all through northern BC, in addition to Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon, even have June 20 as their longest day!
The Planets
The planets placed on a couple of wonderful exhibits all through spring, particularly in June, with the Venus-Jupiter Conjunctionand the lineup the pair settled into with Mercury.
