US and Canadian clocks go back on Sunday 1 November 2026

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. this Sunday across most of the US and Canada. Here's what happens, who isn't affected, and how the gaps to the rest of the world change.

By timenow.click · Published 27 October 2026 · 3 min read

Daylight saving time ends this weekend in most of the United States and Canada. At 2:00 a.m. local time on Sunday 1 November 2026, clocks go back one hour to 1:00 a.m. Each local time zone changes at its own 2 a.m., so New York changes three hours before Los Angeles.

The hour from 1:00 to 2:00 a.m. happens twice that night, and most people get an extra hour in bed. From Sunday, mornings are lighter and evenings get dark an hour earlier.

Who changes

Almost every US state and Canadian province moves its clocks back on the same night. Eastern Time goes from EDT (UTC−4) to EST (UTC−5), Central Time from CDT to CST (UTC−6), Mountain Time from MDT to MST (UTC−7) and Pacific Time from PDT to PST (UTC−8). Alaska, Newfoundland and the Atlantic provinces change on the same night too.

Cuba ends its summer time on the same day. In Mexico, which no longer uses daylight saving time, only areas along the US border change their clocks, including the state of Baja California (home to Tijuana) and Ciudad Juárez, so that they stay in step with their US neighbours.

Who doesn't change

• Hawaii stays on Hawaii Standard Time (UTC−10) all year.
• Most of Arizona stays on Mountain Standard Time (UTC−7) all year. The Navajo Nation in north-eastern Arizona is the exception, and does change.
• US territories including Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa don't use daylight saving time.
• Most of Saskatchewan keeps Central Standard Time all year, and Yukon has stayed on UTC−7 all year since 2020.

Because Arizona doesn't change, from Sunday it is one hour ahead of California again, instead of the same time.

Europe changed a week earlier

The UK and the European Union ended their summer time on Sunday 25 October. For the week in between, the usual gaps across the Atlantic are an hour smaller than normal. London is four hours ahead of New York instead of five, and Paris and Berlin are five hours ahead instead of six. From 1 November the normal gaps return.

Here is how the time difference from New York changes this weekend:

Places in the southern hemisphere, such as Sydney, are in their own summer time, so the gap to them grows to its widest of the year.

Check your meetings this week

• Calendar invites keep the time of the person who created them. A weekly 9:00 a.m. New York meeting stays at 9:00 a.m. in New York, so it moves by an hour for people in Europe and Asia.
• Meetings set for 1 November or later with people in London, Paris or Berlin will be an hour later for them than in the past week.
• If in doubt, use our meeting planner, which works out the times for a specific date.

Will my clocks change by themselves?

Phones, computers and most smart watches update automatically, as long as their time zone is set to a place rather than a fixed UTC offset. Oven clocks, car dashboards, older alarm clocks and some central heating timers usually need changing by hand.

When do the clocks change next?

Daylight saving time starts again on Sunday 14 March 2027, when clocks in most of the US and Canada go forward from 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. The UK and EU follow on Sunday 28 March 2027, so for two weeks in March the gap between New York and London will again be four hours. See our clock changes page for the next change around the world.

Will the US stop changing the clocks?

Proposals to stop the twice-yearly change, including bills to make daylight saving time permanent, have been debated in Congress and in many state legislatures for years. None has become law, so for now the clocks still change in March and November.