By Charles Apple The Spokesman-Review
Today will be the longest day of 2019 in and around Spokane. Daylight hours today will last just 23 seconds shy of 16 hours — which will be 7 hours and 34 minutes longer than the shortest day of the year, our winter solstice on Dec. 21.
This chart shows the effect the Earth’s annual trip around the sun has had — and will have — on us Earthlings in 2019 here in the Inland Northwest.
AP Photo/The Daily Messenger, Rikki Van Camp
Jan. 1, 7:38 a.m.
Earth's closest approach to the Sun
Jan. 2, 9:19 p.m.
March 10, 2 a.m.
March 17
11 hours, 59 minutes, and 2 seconds of daylight.
March 20, 2:58 p.m.
June 16, 4:51 a.m.
June 21, 8:54 a.m.
15 hours, 59 minutes, and 37 seconds of daylight.
June 25-26, 8:51 p.m.
Earth's greatest distance from the Sun
July 4, 3:10 p.m.
Sept. 23, 12:50 a.m.
Sept. 25
12 hours, 1 minute, and 9 seconds of daylight.
Nov. 3, 2 a.m.
Dec. 11, 3:57 p.m.
Dec. 21
8 hours, 25 minutes, and 8 seconds of daylight.
Source: https://www.timeanddate.com