Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2024 Date. Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices. The solstice officially marks the beginning of the astronomical summer, which.
Stonehenge is famous for its alignment on sunrise on the longest day of the year and each year thousands of people come to the site at midsummer. A full strawberry moon sets behind stonehenge, wiltshire, at 3.30am as the sun begins to rise.