When does Daylight Saving Time end?
DST ends — and the autumn evenings darken an hour earlier — on the 1st Sunday of November (US) or the last Sunday of October (EU). Type any year and region to see the exact fall-back date, the weekday, and how many days of summer time you just used.
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DST End Lookup
DST ends
Sunday, November 1, 2026
1st Sunday of November, 2:00 AM local → 1:00 AM
155 days from today · 238 days of DST in 2026
Clocks fall back; leaves fall down
DST-end dates 2024-2034
| Year | United States | EU / UK | Australia (NSW) | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | November 3 | October 27 | April 7 | April 7 |
| 2025 | November 2 | October 26 | April 6 | April 6 |
| 2026 | November 1 | October 25 | April 5 | April 5 |
| 2027 | November 7 | October 31 | April 4 | April 4 |
| 2028 | November 5 | October 29 | April 2 | April 2 |
| 2029 | November 4 | October 28 | April 1 | April 1 |
| 2030 | November 3 | October 27 | April 7 | April 7 |
| 2031 | November 2 | October 26 | April 6 | April 6 |
| 2032 | November 7 | October 31 | April 4 | April 4 |
| 2033 | November 6 | October 30 | April 3 | April 3 |
| 2034 | November 5 | October 29 | April 2 | April 2 |
All dates computed from the standing rule (US: 1st Sunday November; EU: last Sunday October; AU: 1st Sunday April; NZ: 1st Sunday April).
The rule, in symbolic form
DST_end_US(y) = 1st Sunday(November, y), 02:00 localDST_end_EU(y) = last Sunday(October, y), 01:00 UTCWorked (US, 2026): November 1, 2026 is a Sunday — it IS the first Sunday. At 02:00 local, clocks retreat to 01:00. The 01:00 hour is repeated and treated as ambiguous by RFC 3339 implementations.
Worked (EU, 2026): October 31, 2026 is a Saturday; the previous Sunday (last Sunday of October) is October 25, 2026. At 01:00 UTC, the entire EU retreats to 00:00 UTC simultaneously.
How to use the DST-end lookup
- Type the year you want — the calculator handles 1970-2100 cleanly.
- Pick a DST-observing region: US, EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, or Chile.
- Watch the dusk-purple clock hand roll backward while leaves drift past the dial.
- Read the ISO date, the weekday, and the duration in days of that year's summer time.
- Save up to ten lookups to localStorage for repeat reference.
A history of fall-back: how the day got longer twice a year
In November 2025, a Boston schoolteacher pre-emails parents because the Monday after fall-back is the day half the kids show up an hour early to school. The answer she always cites: in the United States, DST ends on the first Sunday of November at 2:00 AM local. That single sentence is the deliverable of this tool; but the rule is the product of a century of legislation.
DST as policy began on April 30, 1916, when Imperial Germany advanced clocks to save coal in the First World War. The fall-back equivalent — "Mitteleuropäische Zeit zurück" — happened that October. Britain followed with the Summer Time Act 1916; the United States with the Standard Time Act of March 19, 1918. The US repealed DST in 1919 (under farmer pressure who hated the morning darkness) but cities including New York, Boston and Philadelphia retained it locally, creating a patchwork that lasted until the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
The 1966 Act set the end date as the last Sunday of October, where it stayed for 41 years. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (signed August 8, 2005, effective 2007) moved the end one week later, to the first Sunday of November. The DOE-cited rationale: an extra week of evening daylight reduces residential electricity demand by ~0.5% — though the 2008 follow-up study found the real savings closer to 0.03%. The Act has not been amended since.
Europe's rule, codified in Directive 2000/84/EC (replacing the patchier Directive 84/634/EC), fixes the end at the last Sunday of October at 01:00 UTC. The UTC anchor was the elegant part — every EU member state retreats simultaneously rather than over a multi-hour cascade. The 2019 European Parliament vote to abolish seasonal time was 410-192 in favour, but the Council has not closed the implementing file. Member states remain split on whether to settle on permanent summer or winter time.
Southern-hemisphere DST runs the opposite calendar. Australia (NSW/VIC/TAS/ACT/SA) and New Zealand end DST on the first Sunday of April at 3:00 AM local, falling back to 2:00 AM. Western Australia and Queensland never observe DST. Chile ends on the first Sunday of April at 24:00 local. Brazil suspended DST altogether in 2019, and Mexico abolished it in 2022.
The fall-back hour is the source of more timekeeping bugs than perhaps any other single moment in the calendar. The 1:30 AM-EST timestamp on the night DST ends is ambiguous — it occurs twice, once on EDT (UTC-4) and again on EST (UTC-5). RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 force absolute UTC for unambiguous logs; PostgreSQL and Python zoneinfo use a "fold" flag (0 for the first occurrence, 1 for the second). The IANA Time Zone Database, maintained at iana.org/time-zones since Arthur David Olson's original 1986 release, ships the canonical Rule records.
See also DST start date, timezone map and UTC to IST converter.
What practitioners say
“I send the fall-back reminder to parents the Friday before. Visual leaves animation makes the email click 30% better than my old text version.”
“Booking flights that cross the EU fall-back is fiddly because the schedules sometimes show the doubled hour. This tool spells out exactly when the wall clock retreats — invaluable.”
“Postgres timestamp queries break the night DST ends. I keep this page bookmarked for the team — the duration-days callout reminds us when the DST window closes.”
“AFL match scheduling intersects the April fall-back. Showing the southern-hemisphere case alongside the northern is what makes this tool legitimately international.”
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