Daylight Saving Time 2026: Every Date You Need to Know

Daylight saving time in 2026 starts on Sunday, March 8, at 2:00 AM local time, when clocks spring forward to 3:00 AM. It ends on Sunday, November 1, at 2:00 AM local time, when clocks fall back to 1:00 AM.

Between those two dates, the US spends just under eight months on daylight saving time and a little over four months on standard time — daylight saving now covers the majority of the calendar year.

The next transition after 2026's fall-back is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when daylight saving resumes. The date shifts slightly year to year because it's always defined as the second Sunday in March, not a fixed calendar date.

Arizona (except the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands do not observe daylight saving time, so none of these dates affect their clocks.

Everywhere else in the US — all nine other zone/state combinations spanning Eastern through Alaska Time — follows the same March 8 and November 1 schedule in 2026.

Scheduling systems, flight itineraries, financial trading calendars, and international calls all depend on knowing exactly when a given zone's offset shifts, since a meeting or transaction booked across the transition weekend can land an hour off if the software involved doesn't account for the exact date.

Software and hardware that store time zone rules — rather than fixed offsets — update automatically for these dates each year, which is one reason time zone database standards are maintained and revised whenever a country changes its daylight saving rules.

Anyone planning ahead — booking travel, setting recurring reminders, or coordinating a project milestone that spans the transition weekend — benefits from noting both 2026 dates up front, since March 8 and November 1 mark the only two days each year when every participating US zone's offset actually changes.