Summer Solstice 2024 Times Square New York Times. By brendan brightman • published june 19, 2024 • updated on june 20, 2024 at 8:50 am. Each year, thousands of yogis from around the world travel to times square to celebrate the summer solstice with free yoga.

The summer solstice on sunday heralded the beginning of the season, when the earth’s orbit is at its greatest tilt toward the sun, according to nasa. A low cap of clouds toyed with new yorkers in may as they attempted to take in the first appearances of the solar spectacle known as manhattanhenge.