If you're keen to mark the winter solsitce set your clocks for 9:43am on Sunday. This is the point from which New Zealand and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere begins to get more daylight as the sun’s angle in the sky starts to increase.

From south to north here's how much daylight there will be on Sunday: 
 

• Scott Base 0.00.00
• Auckland Island 7:57:13
• Invercargill 8.35.00
• Dunedin 8.39.12
• Christchurch 8.56.22
• Wellington 9.11.23
• Nelson 9.11.30
• Hamilton 9.32.36
• Tauranga 9.33.12
• Auckland 9.37.54
• Kerikeri 9.46.43

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