Clocks Fall Back Soon — Here’s When Daylight Saving Time Ends in 2025
So, the time has come again for that familiar question: “Do we set our clocks back tonight?” Yes — that moment of the year when we all get an extra hour of sleep is right around the corner. Daylight Saving Time (DST) will officially end at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2025 , across most of the United States, including states like Michigan and Ohio.
When the clocks fall back one hour, we’ll be switching from Daylight Saving Time to standard time. That means sunrise and sunset will each arrive an hour earlier than what we’ve been used to during the summer and early fall. So, if you still have any old-fashioned clocks at home, don’t forget to set them back an hour before heading to bed on the night of November 1.
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This change, while routine, always sparks the question — why do we even do this? The tradition of Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. actually goes back more than a century. It was first introduced in 1918 , during World War I, as part of the Standard Time Act. The idea was to conserve fuel by taking advantage of longer daylight hours. The government stopped the practice after the war, brought it back during World War II, and later standardized it through the Uniform Time Act of 1966 . Since 2005, the schedule has been what we know today: clocks move forward on the second Sunday in March and fall back on the first Sunday in November .
The idea behind it is simple — during warmer months, daylight is shifted to later in the day to make evenings brighter and supposedly save energy. When we “fall back” in November, it’s to align more daylight with the morning hours. It also means darker evenings as we move toward the winter solstice , which happens this year on December 21 at 8:03 a.m. EST . After that date, daylight will slowly begin increasing again until mid-June.
Not every place in America follows this pattern, though. Hawaii and most of Arizona don’t observe Daylight Saving Time, and U.S. territories like Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands stay on standard time year-round. Some states have even debated getting rid of these time changes altogether, but that can only happen with Congressional approval .
So, for now, the biannual ritual continues. On November 2, 2025 , we’ll gain that precious extra hour — a brief gift before the shorter days of winter settle in. And when the days start to lengthen again, we’ll be “springing forward” once more on March 8, 2026 .
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