Winter Solstice 2024 Southern Hemisphere. During the winter solstice, the sun's rays will be directly over the tropic of capricorn, a line of latitude that circles the earth in the southern hemisphere. Because the sun’s rays are.

The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on saturday, dec. 21, 2024 and the next winter solstice for the southern hemisphere will occur on june 20, 2024.