Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday: Tallahassee Clocks Fall Back an Hour After Halloween
At 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, clocks in Tallahassee turn back to 1 a.m. - an extra hour of sleep after Halloween night, and sunsets an hour earlier on the clock from Sunday evening on.
Halloween night in Tallahassee comes with a bonus hour this year. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, when clocks turn back one hour to 1 a.m. local time. The date is the earliest the annual change can fall: under the federal schedule in place since 2007, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, and in 2026 that first Sunday is November 1 itself.
In practice, Saturday night is when Tallahassee handles it. Phones and computers reset themselves; ovens, microwaves and car clocks want setting back before bed. The change lands in the middle of the city's biggest Saturday of the fall - after trick-or-treating and the Florida State-Clemson night game - and it gives the night an extra hour. Sunday is also the final day of early voting in Leon County, and voters heading out that morning will be on the new standard time. The trade-off arrives Sunday evening, when sunset comes about an hour earlier on the clock and the early-dark evenings of November begin.
Whether this ritual has many repetitions left is an open question in Washington. The U.S. House voted in July to approve the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-yearly changes, but the Senate has not voted on the bill, and no change has been enacted into law. Unless Congress acts, Tallahassee will spring forward again on Sunday, March 14, 2027.
