Days are getting noticeably shorter and the sun is going down before 5 p.m., but Illinois will actually hit its earliest sunset of the year in the coming days.
It would seem reasonable to expect that the earliest sunset of the year would coincide with the winter solstice, but in reality the day with the earliest sunset of the year actually occurs two weeks before that, according to astronomers.After that, sunset will slowly begin to occur later, but you won't notice at first, since it will take more than a week to see a sunset at 4:22 p.m.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.
The day with the least sunshine of the year, the winter solstice, will take place on Dec. 21 just before 4 p.m., according to officials. On that day, Chicago will see its lowest amount of sunlight for the season, clocking in just under nine hours and 11 minutes. From there, the days will slowly begin to get longer, but we won't get over 10 hours of sunlight again until Jan. 30, according to Sunrise-Sunset.
Even after the solstice, sunrise will continue occurring later in the morning until Jan. 3, when the sun will come up at approximately 7:16 a.m. Later sunsets will help to offset that change, meaning that the city will see incrementally-more sunshine total each day even as sunrise occurs later and later.
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