When Does Daylight Saving Time End in 2026?

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 2:00 AM local time. Clocks fall back to 1:00 AM at that moment, meaning the hour from 1:00 AM to 2:00 AM happens twice that night.

This is the first Sunday in November, matching the federal schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in 2007 and shifted both the start and end dates from the previous rules used through 2006.

Unlike the spring change, autumn's transition adds an hour rather than removing one, which is why it's typically experienced as a welcome extra hour of sleep.

After November 1, 2026, most of the country returns to standard time — the same offsets used in winter — and stays there until the next daylight saving period begins the following March.

Because clocks fall back rather than the sun's position changing, the most noticeable effect is that sunset arrives an hour earlier by the clock starting November 2 — in much of the northern US, that can mean sunset before 5:00 PM.

Sunrise, correspondingly, shifts an hour earlier too, which is why late autumn mornings often feel brighter again for a few weeks after the change.

The 'first Sunday in November' end date has applied since 2007 under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which pushed the end date about a week later than the last-Sunday-in-October rule used from 1987 through 2006. Like the March start date, it's fixed to a Sunday to land the disruption overnight before a normal work and school week.

Because November 1, 2026 happens to be the first day of the month, the end date and the calendar month boundary coincide that year — a coincidence that won't recur every year, since the rule tracks the first Sunday, not the first day, of November.

The extra week that daylight saving gained in 2007 — pushing the end date from late October to early November — was justified partly on energy-savings grounds, though later studies produced mixed evidence on how much electricity, if any, the extension actually saves nationwide.