New York\u2019s most reliable free evening entertainment is about to change its hours. The sun, unconcerned with our commutes or post-work plans, will soon clock out before 6pm\u2014and stay on that schedule for months.<\/p>\n
This Sunday, October 25, marks the city\u2019s final sunset after 6pm in 2026, according to Time and Date\u2019s solar calendar. Sundown is listed at 6:01pm, giving you just enough time to appreciate the milestone before it’s gone. On Monday, October 26, the sunset slips to 5:59pm.\u00a0That makes this weekend a great excuse to linger along the Hudson River, or finally take the autumn walk<\/a> you\u2019ve been discussing since September.<\/p>\n RECOMMENDED:\u00a0Here\u2019s the exact date when we\u2019ll see peak fall foliage in NYC, according to the Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a><\/p>\n The bigger afternoon ambush comes the following weekend: daylight saving time ends<\/a> on Sunday, November 1, when clocks turn back from 2am to 1am. That means an extra hour overnight after Halloween<\/a>, but it also means sunset will land around 4:52pm that Sunday, a particularly rude development for anyone whose workday ends at five.<\/p>\n The clock change shifts daylight into the morning; it doesn\u2019t remove an hour of actual sunshine. But the days themselves are also getting shorter as we approach the winter solstice. Together, those two developments explain why a perfectly ordinary afternoon errand will soon feel like a late-night expedition.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s shortest day falls on Monday, December 21, with just nine hours and 15 minutes of daylight in New York and a 4:31pm sunset. After that, total daylight starts increasing again, but the initial gains are small enough that you probably won\u2019t be celebrating them on your evening subway platform.<\/p>\n The 6pm barrier finally breaks on Sunday, March 14, 2027, when daylight saving time returns. Sunset jumps to roughly 7:01pm that day, while the previous evening\u2019s sunset lands around 6pm. The reward comes with the usual catch: clocks spring forward, taking an hour of sleep with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n Until then, consider moving your outdoor ambitions into your lunch break, whether that’s a midday park lap or a waterfront coffee. As for\u00a0this Sunday? Give the sunset your full attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s most reliable free evening entertainment is about to change its hours. The sun, unconcerned with our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1739,9,24,2480,63,122,124,123,904],"class_list":["post-380980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-city-life","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}