2025 Stonehenge Summer Solstice Festival. Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices. Summer solstice at stonehenge happens around june 21 every year which is the longest day, and the sun’s position remains more or less the same for a few days on either side of this date.
Stonehenge’s relationship with the sun sees the summer solstice line up with the monument, where the sun rises behind the heel stone in the northeast part of the. Stonehenge is built on the alignment of the midsummer sunrise and the.