SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — Utahns have a good reason to celebrate because the days are getting longer. For the first time since Nov. 4, the sun will set on the Wasatch at 6 p.m.
The sun will continue to set about another minute later per day from Valentine’s Day until March 9, when daylight saving time begins and we spring our clocks forward an hour. Once that happens, we will have sunsets past 7 p.m. and nearly 12 hours of sun per day.
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The longest day of the year will come on the summer solstice, which falls on June 20. On that day the sun will rise just before 6 a.m. and set after 9 p.m. for a whopping 15-hour day of sunlight.
After the solstice, the days will go back to getting shorter but we won’t see another sunset before 6 p.m. until the clocks fall back and daylight saving time ends on Nov. 3.
See below for a table of notable days of sunlight using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: