Is there a name for the maximum in local solar elevation angle? It came up in conversation today that we were nearly at 21st June, and the days would shortly be getting, um, shorter.

We were trying to think of the the term that means "When the sun is at the highest point it can attain in the sky during the year", as opposed to during the day, (which is the solar noon). We have terms like Perigee and Apogee, it seems (to me) that there should be a name for this as well.

Is there?
I think this is an indirect answer, but the name for this event is solstice. In the strictest definition, the solstice is


  either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.


By definition, the solstice is the exact point in time when the Earth's axial tilt is pointed as close to (or as far from) the Sun as possible and by extension, the Sun is at its highest (or lowest) point in the sky during the year. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this point is the summer solstice, whereas it is the winter solstice for the southern hemisphere.