When does daylight saving time end in 2026 in the US?

Sunday, November 1, 2026. At 2:00 AM local time, clocks fall back one hour to 1:00 AM, and standard time returns. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) becomes Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5).

When do clocks go back in the UK and EU in 2026?

Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 1:00 AM UTC. British Summer Time (UTC+1) becomes Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0), and Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) becomes Central European Time (UTC+1).

Why is there a one-week gap between the US and EU clock change?

The US changes on the first Sunday of November, while the EU changes on the last Sunday of October. In 2026 those are November 1 and October 25. For the week between them, Europe is on standard time and the US is still on daylight time, so the New York to London offset is five hours instead of four.

Do all US states observe daylight saving time?

No. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe DST and stay on standard time year round. The Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona does observe DST. US territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa also do not observe DST.

Do we gain or lose an hour when DST ends?

You gain an hour. Clocks fall back from 2:00 AM to 1:00 AM, so the hour between 1:00 AM and 2:00 AM occurs twice. This is the opposite of spring forward, when clocks jump from 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM and you lose an hour.

Is the US making daylight saving time permanent in 2026?

No. The Sunshine Protection Act, which would make DST permanent, passed the Senate in 2022 but did not pass the House. The US continues to change clocks twice a year in 2026, with no scheduled change to that rule.

What is the IANA time zone identifier for New York?

America/New_York. This identifier encodes both the standard and daylight offsets and the transition rules, so date libraries using it will return the correct offset for any date automatically. Using a fixed offset like EST is wrong for half the year.

When Does Daylight Saving Time End in 2026?

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026 in the United States and Canada. At 2:00 AM local time, clocks fall back one hour to 1:00 AM, and standard time returns. In the European Union and the United Kingdom, it ends a week earlier, on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 1:00 AM UTC.

That one-week gap is the part that catches people out. For seven days, the offset between New York and London is five hours instead of the usual four during shared daylight time, because the US is still on summer time while Europe has already switched back. A 3:00 PM call scheduled every Wednesday between London and New York moves by an hour on the week of October 25 without anyone touching the calendar invite.

The exact transition times

In the United States, the transition happens at 2:00 AM local time in every zone that observes DST. On the East Coast, Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) becomes Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) at 07:00 UTC on November 1. On the West Coast, Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) becomes Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8) at 09:00 UTC.

In Europe, every member state shifts at the same instant, 01:00 UTC on October 25. Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) becomes Central European Time (UTC+1), and British Summer Time (UTC+1) becomes Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0). Because the whole continent shifts together, the offset between Paris and London stays at one hour before, during, and after the change.

United States and Canada: fall back Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM local
European Union and UK: fall back Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
Australia (NSW, VIC, SA, TAS, ACT): fall back Sunday, April 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM local
New Zealand: fall back Sunday, April 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM local
Mexico: no federal DST since 2022, except border municipalities that follow US dates

What changes in the offset

When clocks fall back, the UTC offset in every observing zone drops by one hour. New York moves from UTC-4 (EDT) to UTC-5 (EST). London moves from UTC+1 (BST) to UTC+0 (GMT). Berlin moves from UTC+2 (CEST) to UTC+1 (CET). The IANA zone identifiers stay the same, America/New_York, Europe/London, Europe/Berlin, but the offset they produce changes on the transition date.

A duration calculator that ignores the transition will be off by an hour for any range that crosses it. A timesheet running from October 20 to October 27, 2026 for a London employee contains 168 hours of wall-clock time minus the one hour gained on October 25, so 169 billable hours. Tools that store instants in UTC and convert at display time handle this automatically. Tools that store local times as plain numbers do not.

Places that do not change

Hawaii stays on UTC-10 year round. Most of Arizona stays on UTC-7 year round, with the Navajo Nation in the northeast as the exception because it does observe DST. Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa do not observe DST. Saskatchewan in Canada stays on Central Standard Time year round. In Europe, Iceland does not observe DST despite being in the Western European time zone, and Russia abolished DST permanently in 2014.

If you are building a meeting planner, the safe assumption is that the offset is a property of the date and the IANA zone, never a fixed constant. A recurring 9:00 AM New York meeting is 14:00 UTC in summer and 14:00 UTC in winter only because both happen to land that way, but a 9:00 AM London meeting is 08:00 UTC in winter and 08:00 UTC in summer for the same reason. The point is that the rule, not the number, is what you store.

The spring-forward dates for context

DST in 2026 began on Sunday, March 8 in the US and Canada, when clocks jumped from 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM. In the EU and UK it began on Sunday, March 29. That three-week spring gap is when the New York to London offset temporarily shrank to four hours. The same compression happens in reverse in autumn, but in the other direction, the gap grows to five hours for the week of October 25 to November 1.

For the week of October 25 to October 31, 2026, Europe is on standard time and North America is still on daylight time. The New York to London offset is five hours, not four. Update recurring cross-Atlantic invites for that week.

Will the US stop changing clocks?

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate in 2022, which would have made daylight saving time permanent in the US. It did not pass the House, so the twice-yearly clock change continues in 2026. No federal change to DST is scheduled for 2026. The EU voted in 2019 to end the clock change and let each member state choose permanent summer or winter time, but implementation has been delayed indefinitely, so EU members still change clocks together in 2026.

Related tools for the clock change

The DST Information page lists every transition date for 2026 by country. The Time Zone Converter handles the offset math for a specific instant across zones. The World Clock shows the current local time in major cities, updated for the current offset. The UTC Time Now page gives the reference instant that all offsets are measured against.