On July 20, 2026, the sun rises at 5:51 AM and sets at 9:20 PM, giving us 929 minutes of daylight and a night that lasts 510 minutes. This is day 201 of the year, placing us firmly in the heart of summer. It has been 29 days since the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and we have 64 days to go until the fall equinox, when day and night will once again be equal.

Since the summer solstice, we have lost a total of 4 minutes of daylight compared to that peak. The cumulative net change since the spring equinox, however, is a gain of 420 minutes, a reminder of how far we have come from the short days of early spring. The loss is split evenly, with the sun rising two minutes later and setting two minutes earlier than it did at the solstice, as if it is reluctantly beginning to edge back toward its winter schedule.

Half an hour of sunshine gone since the June solstice. Still, daylight beats night by nearly seven hours — not bad. Make it count.