When does daylight saving time start and end in 2026?
March 8
to November 1
Clocks go forward on Sunday March 8, 2026 and back on Sunday November 1, 2026, both at 2am local time. That is 238 days of daylight saving in 2026.
- Clocks forward
- March 8
- Clocks back
- November 1
- Days on DST
- 238
- Days on standard
- 127
Spring forward
2:00 am becomes 3:00 am. The hour between never happens, so that Sunday is 23 hours long.
Fall back
2:00 am becomes 1:00 am. That hour happens twice, so the Sunday is 25 hours long.
March 8 on the calendar
| ISO week | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | |||||||
| 11 | Clocks forward | ||||||
| 12 | |||||||
| 13 | |||||||
| 14 |
November 1 on the calendar
| ISO week | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | Clocks back | ||||||
| 46 | |||||||
| 47 | |||||||
| 48 | |||||||
| 49 |
Why these dates
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 fixed US daylight saving to the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, which is why the dates drift by a few days each year rather than sitting on a fixed calendar date. In 2026 that gives Sunday, March 8, 2026 and Sunday, November 1, 2026 — 238 days on daylight saving, about 65% of the year.
Clocks move at 2am in each zone separately, not all at once, so the change crosses the country over three hours. Arizona and Hawaii do not take part at all. These dates are not looked up in a table here; they are found by searching the IANA time zone database for the moment the offset actually changes, so they follow the law rather than a copy of it.