How many days until Halloween?

How dark will it be for trick-or-treating?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 the sun sets between 5:37 p.m. and 6:48 p.m. local time across the 12 cities in the table. Phoenix is earliest and San Antonio is latest. Chicago comes in at 5:46 p.m., New York and Seattle at 5:53 p.m., and Miami at 6:40 p.m.

Latitude explains only part of that spread. Phoenix is one of the southernmost cities in the table, yet its clock shows the earliest sunset. Seattle, far to the north, matches New York to the minute. Where a city sits inside its time zone, and which clock it keeps, moves the reading as much as how far north it is. That is why we list cities instead of one national number.

Why is 2026 a little different?

Daylight saving time ends at 2:00 a.m. on Sun, Nov 1, 2026, a few hours after Halloween night. So October 31 is the last evening this year with a late clock sunset. One day later, the same sunset reads an hour earlier. In 2027, when the clocks change on Sun, Nov 7, Halloween falls on a Sunday a week before the switch.

Which years give a weekend Halloween?

From the table: Saturday in 2026 and Sunday in 2027, then Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in 2028 through 2030. If you are planning a party, the weekday is the thing to plan around, and the counter above tells you how much time you have.