Clocks Fall Back Sunday at 2 A.M.: New York Gets an Extra Hour and Its First Sunset Before 5 P.M.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, and New York City trades an hour of evening light for an hour of morning light — on the same morning the marathon fills the streets.
The extra hour arrives overnight. Daylight saving time ends at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, when clocks are turned back one hour to 1:00 a.m. and the city returns to standard time. Phones and connected clocks will make the change on their own; wall clocks, ovens and car clocks are the ones New Yorkers will be fixing on Sunday morning.
The trade shows up at both ends of Sunday. Sunrise comes at 6:26 a.m., about an hour earlier by the clock, and sunset lands at 4:52 p.m. — the first sunset before 5 p.m. of the season, on a day with about ten hours and twenty-six minutes of daylight in total. The evenings keep shrinking from here: by November 30, sunset is near 4:29 p.m.
The weather cooperates with the clock. The station's feed shows a clear Saturday evening cooling from a high of 61 toward a low of 44.5, and a colder Sunday behind the change — a high of 59.8 and a low of 38.1, the coldest night of the stretch, under overcast skies. Marathon runners gathering before dawn get the extra hour of sleep and the coldest start of the weekend in the same morning.
One caution rides with the bonus hour: everything on Sunday — marathon waves, ferry departures, shuttle appointments and broadcast schedules — follows the local clock after the change, so a manually set alarm or a travel reminder built in another time zone can be an hour wrong. And the twice-yearly ritual is not ending yet: the U.S. House voted in July to make daylight saving time permanent, but the Senate has not acted and nothing has been enacted, so the clocks go back this weekend and forward again on March 14, 2027.
