Daylight Saving Time Ends: Miami Woke Up on Standard Time, With Sunrise at 6:29 and Sunset at 5:39
Clocks fell back at 2 a.m. Sunday. Miami's Sunday runs an hour earlier by the sun - sunrise 6:29 a.m., sunset 5:39 p.m. - on the final day of early voting and a Dolphins afternoon kickoff that will end in the dark.
It is done. At 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, clocks across Miami-Dade fell back one hour to 1 a.m., daylight saving time ended, and standard time resumed - the change 'daylight savings' searchers drove to the top of the national trending list, at more than a million searches on the trends snapshot read by this desk overnight.
What Miami actually notices today is the sun. Sunrise came at 6:29 a.m. and sunset arrives at 5:39 p.m., according to the timeanddate figures for Miami read this run - against Saturday's 7:28 a.m. sunrise and 6:39 p.m. sunset. The morning hour of light is real: the 28 early voting sites opening at 7 a.m. for their final day do so in daylight. The evening hour is gone: the Dolphins' 4:25 p.m. kickoff at Hard Rock Stadium will finish well after dark, and the sun will keep setting earlier until the winter solstice on December 21.
The twice-yearly argument resumes with the clocks. A YouGov poll conducted in March 2026 found 64 percent of Americans want to stop changing the clocks, split between permanent daylight saving time (43 percent) and permanent standard time (28 percent), according to a Washington explainer read this run. The U.S. House passed the Sunshine Protection Act in July 2026 by 308 to 117 to make daylight saving time permanent, but the Senate has shown no urgency in advancing it - Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas argued permanent daylight time would push winter sunrises to an 'absurdly late hour.' Florida's own permanent-daylight law, passed years ago, still cannot take effect without Congress.
Hawaii, most of Arizona and the U.S. territories do not observe the change at all. For Miami, the next shift is March 14, 2027, when clocks spring forward again - unless Congress acts first.
