AUSTIN (KXAN) — Now that October is here, the countdown is truly on for the end of Daylight Saving Time and the beginning of Standard Time in just a few weeks.
November 2 is the magical date when we “fall back” making it barely over one month away. The yearly occurrence acts as a time shift when we set our clocks one hour earlier.
The difference between now and the first day of Standard Time is more light in the morning, but much earlier sunsets in the evening.
As it is, we’re losing almost two minutes of daylight per day.
Key dates: Sunrise and sunsets
- Oct. 14: Last sunset of 7 p.m. or later for 2025
- Nov. 1: Last day of Daylight Saving Time
- Sunrise: 7:45 a.m., Sunset: 6:43 p.m.
- Nov. 6: First day of Standard Time
- Sunrise: 6:46 a.m., Sunset: 5:42 p.m.
- Nov. 18: Last day with sunrise before 7 a.m. for 2025
- Nov. 25 through Dec. 9: Earliest sunset of the year (5:30 p.m.)
- Dec. 21: First day of winter, shortest day length of the year (10 hours, 11 min, 38 seconds)
- Jan. 4-15: Latest sunrise of winter (7:28 a.m.)
What to do when Standard Time begins?
There are some checklist items you should plan on doing the weekend of the time change.
- Obvious: Change clocks back one hour if they don’t adjust to standard time automatically
- Don’t forget the microwave clock, oven clock, sprinkler time and car clock
- Put new batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detector.
Changing sunset times
The first day of Standard Time on November 2 marks a big change in the sunset time in Austin, but it’s not our earliest sunset of the year. The earliest sunset comes the last few days of November into the first few days of December when the sun goes down at 5:30 p.m.
Already by January 23 the sunset is as late as 6 p.m. again.
Days keep getting shorter
Regardless of the end of Daylight Saving Time ending, our days continue to get shorter at a fast pace. In the month of October we expect to lose around 50 minutes of daylight. We’ll keep losing daylight and gaining night length until the first day of winter.
The first day of winter, December 21, is our shortest day of the year with 10 hours and 11 minutes of daylight. After that, the amount of daylight we see will gradually increase until the first day of summer.
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