Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice (or Midwinter's Day) is an event in the, coinciding with the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere – December 21st.

The Winter Solstice appears as Midwinter's Day in European copies of. Tortimer will stand outside the Town Hall. If the player speaks to him, they will obtain a Snow Globe.

This event is celebrated by Isabelle standing out in the Event Plaza, and she will give the player a Blue Glow Stick, which cannot be obtained anywhere else. At Winter Solstice, it will be night all day, and many villagers, especially snooty ones and Isabelle, will talk about the cold. A four-person cutout board will be stood out in the Event Plaza as well.

While the Winter Solstice does not appear in as a standard event, it appears as a Nook Shopping seasonal event from June 7 to July 6, in which the player can purchase the  from Nook Shopping for 1,200 Bells.

Like other minor events, the villagers will notify about this event.

Real-world information
The occurs when the tilt of a planet's semi-axis, in either the northern or the southern hemisphere, is most inclined away from the star (sun) that it orbits. This happens twice each year, at which times the sun reaches its lowest position in the sky as seen from the north or the south pole. However, what is seen in is actually known in the real world as a "polar night", in which the sun is not visible for more than 24 hours, which occurs in the arctic or antarctic circle, during the days near the winter solstice.