# Daylight Saving Time Ends 2026

- Date: November 1, 2026, 12:00 AM (UTC) — 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Category: Holidays
- Page: https://www.watchisup.com/holidays/daylight-saving-time-ends

Live countdown to the end of Daylight Saving Time 2026: when do the clocks go back one hour? Fall back on the first Sunday of November and gain an hour of sleep.

Daylight Saving Time ends on the **first Sunday of November** at 2:00 a.m. local time: the clock goes back to 1:00 a.m. The night runs 25 hours and you gain an hour of sleep. As in spring the rule is stated in *local* time, so each time zone falls back when its own 2 a.m. arrives, one after another.

**Standard time is the default.** Despite how it feels, this is not a shift into something unusual — it is the return to the zone's legal time. Daylight Saving Time is the exception, and it now covers about eight months of the year.

**The evenings go dark abruptly.** The following afternoon, sunset arrives an hour earlier. Traffic studies consistently find more pedestrian collisions in the weeks that follow, as the evening commute moves into darkness.

**The dates differ from Europe's.** The EU switches back on the last Sunday of October, a week earlier. During that week the usual five-hour gap between New York and London stretches to six.

**Where it does not apply.** Hawaii and most of Arizona never changed in the first place, so nothing happens there.

**On sleep**, the autumn change is the gentler of the two — an hour gained rather than lost — but the body clock still takes several days to resynchronise, and the effect is stronger in children and older adults.

This countdown can be shared as a plain reminder: the hour comes back overnight, and not everyone sees it coming. For any date of your own, create your own timer in a few seconds.