Is winter solstice a solar term? Winter solstice is a solar term.

1, winter solstice is 24 solar terms, also known as winter festival and happy winter. It is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the eight astronomical solar terms, which is opposite to the summer solstice.

2. On the winter solstice, the position where the sun shines directly on the ground reaches the southernmost point of the year, almost directly on the tropic of Capricorn. On this day, the northern hemisphere gets the least sunshine, 50% less than the southern hemisphere. The days in the northern hemisphere are the shortest, and the farther north they are, the shorter they are.