by Anura Guruge
on June 19, 2021
Just to allay any confusion, we are talking about U.S. Father’s Day & the Summer (i.e., June) Solstice relative to the U.S. East Coast (i.e., where I live) — & as such Eastern Time.
The Summer Solstice, as far as the U.S. East Coast is concerned falls on either June 20 or June 21. That is it.
U.S. Father’s Day is the 3rd Sunday in June (or for those of us in New Hampshire, the ‘last’ (or proper) Sunday of ‘Bike Week‘). The 3rd Sunday means that Father’s Day can fall anywhere from June 15 to June 21. For it to fall on June 15, as it did in 2014, June 1 must fall on a Sunday. So, you can see the sequence there. June 16 if the first Sunday was on June 2, etc.
As you can see from the table I compiled above, with data from ‘timeanddate.com‘, we do get the two coinciding every 5 to 6 years — which is NOT bad. So, we can’t claim it is rare — & as such special. So, we had this happen as ‘recently’ as 2015 & it will happen again 5-years later. OK?
Happy Father’s Day.
