Spring equinox Mar. 19, 2024

Spring has officially sprung! Today marks the spring or vernal equinox, the official beginning of springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. Starting today, regions north of the equator will have more daylight hours than darkness throughout the day.

© Tetsuya Tanooka/DEEPOL by plainpicture

palette

Today in History

Straight out of a fairytale
Mar. 19, 2025A black heron canopy hunting in Botswana
Mar. 19, 2026Short-beaked echidna, Adelaide Hills, Australia

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Do pandas enjoy winter?
May 2, 2025Striated heron on a Victoria water lily, Pantanal, Brazil
May 22, 2025International Day for Biological Diversity
Jul. 10, 2025Independence Day of the Bahamas
Oct. 21, 2025Happy Diwali!
Oct. 4, 2024Nuit Blanche Toronto
Sep. 3, 2025Grizzly bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States
Aug. 10, 2025World Lion Day
Mar. 15, 2025Pacific Rim Whale Festival
Mar. 6, 2024Wahclella Falls, Oregon, USA
Jul. 23, 2024Methoni Castle, Messinia, Greece
Beauty by the bay
So close, yet so far
Mar. 24, 2026Cherry blossoms at East Lake Cherry Blossom Park, Wuhan, China
Jan. 21, 2026Eurasian red squirrel
Nov. 28, 2024Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia
There’s more to Pisa than leaning towers
A shiver of sharks on the hunt
Sep. 24, 2024Skaftafell, Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland
A modern recreation
Oct. 22, 2023Astoria-Megler Bridge, Oregon
Aug. 24, 2025European fallow deer in England
Aug. 24, 2024Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Maine, USA
Nov. 14, 2023Russell lupines, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Home of the ‘world’s worst smelling food?’
Apr. 23, 2025Shakespeare Day
Feb. 8, 2026Corfu at night, Greece
Sep. 19, 2024International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Where fire and water meet
Jul. 13, 2024International Rock Day