Daylight Saving Time Information for SunriseSunset.com

Daylight Saving Time

Many countries around the world observe Daylight Saving Time (DST), also known as Summer Time, during their summer. This transfers one hour of morning daylight to the evening. To accomplish this the clocks are set ahead one hour in the spring and turned back one hour in the fall.

For more details, visit the Daylight Saving Time page at Wikipedia.

Rules Used While Creating the Calendars

The rules have been researched for the years starting around the year 2000 to the present. The future dates of this observance are set by the government of the country or locality and are subject to change. Also see FAQs and DST adjustments.

Calendars created for all future years to 2099 will use the rules in this table.

For corrections or to have a new country added, please contact us.

Region	Year(s)	DST Begins	DST Ends
North America^[1], all except Mexico	2007 and later	Second Sunday in March	First Sunday in November
North America^[1], all except Mexico	2006 and earlier	First Sunday in April	Last Sunday in October
Argentina	all years	Third Sunday in October	Third Sunday in February
Australia^[2]	2011 and later	First Sunday in October	First Sunday in April
Australia^[2]	2010 and earlier, except 2000^[3]	Last Sunday in October^[3]	Last Sunday in March
Azerbaijan	all years	Last Sunday in March	Last Sunday in October
Brazil	all years	Third Sunday in October	Third Sunday in February
Chile	all years	Second Sunday in October	Second Sunday in March
Cuba	2013 and later	Third Sunday in March	Second Sunday in November
	2012	April 1	November 11
	2011	March 20	November 13
	2009 & 2010	Second Sunday in April	Last Sunday in October
	2008 and earlier	Last Sunday in March	Last Sunday in October
Egypt	2011 and later	DST not observed	DST not observed
Egypt	2010 and earlier^[4]	Last Friday in April	Last Friday in September
Europe	all years	Last Sunday in March	Last Sunday in October
Falkland Islands	all years, except 2011^[6]	First Sunday in September	Third Sunday in April
Fiji	2011 and later	Fourth Sunday in October	Last Sunday in March
	2010	Fourth Sunday in October	April 25
	2009	November 29	no DST end date
	2008 and earlier	DST not observed	DST not observed
Iran^[9]	2008 and later	March 20	September 21
	2006 & 2007	DST not observed	DST not observed
	1989 to 2005	March 20	September 21
	1980 to 1988	DST not observed	DST not observed
	1979 and earlier	March 20	September 21
Israel	2018 and later	Last Friday before April 2	Last Sunday in September^[5]
	2017	Friday, March 24	Sunday, October 8^[5]
	2016	Friday, March 25	Sunday, October 2^[5]
	2015	Friday, March 27	Sunday, October 4^[5]
	2014	Friday, March 28	Sunday, October 5^[5]
	2013	Friday, March 29	Sunday, October 6
	2012	Friday, March 30	Sunday, September 23
	2011	Friday, April 1	Sunday, October 2
	2010	Friday, March 26	Sunday, September 12
	2009	Friday, March 27	Sunday, September 27
	2008	Friday, March 28	Sunday, October 5
	2007	Friday, March 30	Sunday, September 16
	2000 to 2006	Second Friday in March	Fourth Sunday in October
	1999 and earlier	Third Friday in March	First Sunday in September
Jordan	all years	Last Friday before April 2	Last Friday in October
Mexico^[8]	all years	First Sunday in April	Last Sunday in October
Namibia	all years	First Sunday in September	First Sunday in April
New Zealand	2009 and later	Last Sunday in September	First Sunday in April
New Zealand	2008 and earlier	First Sunday in October	Third Sunday in March
Russia^[7]	2012 and later	DST all year	DST all year
	2011	Last Sunday in March	DST does not end
	2010 and earlier	Last Sunday in March	Last Sunday in October
Syria	all years	Last Friday before April 2	Last Friday in October
Uruguay	2007 and later	First Sunday in October	Second Sunday in March
	2006	October 1	March 12
	2005	October 9	March 27
	2004	September 19	March 7
	2003 and earlier	Third Sunday in October	First Sunday in March

Footnotes:

United States: Arizona and Hawaii do not observe DST. Some cities in Arizona, such as Chinle, Kayenta and Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in the Navajo Nation do observe DST. Indiana currently observes DST, but this has varied over previous years, see Time in Indiana at Wikipedia.

Canada: Saskatchewan does not observe DST. For some provinces, including Saskatchewan, there are smaller geographic areas within them that set their own rules, see the 1998 article in Canadian Geographic titled It's about TIME and Time in Canada at Wikipedia.
In Australia, the states of Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not observe DST.
For the 2000 Olympics, Australia started DST on Sunday, August 27.
Egypt cancelled the observance of DST in April 2011, effective immediately for that year. This site presumes it is also cancelled for all future years.
Currently, Israeli law defines the end of DST to be the Sunday between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur, but this law may change in the future. This site will use the dates in the table or generalize the rule to the last Sunday in September. See Israel Daylight Saving time at Wikipedia.
For the year 2011, the Falkland Islands will stay on DST all year long. Outside of Stanley and the RAF base at Mount Pleasant, Camp Time is used which does not observe DST.
For the year 2011 and then for all future years, Russia will stay on DST all year long. See Time in Russia at Wikipedia.
Some Mexican cities that border the United States and all of the state of Baja California follow the U.S. DST rules.

The state of Sonora does not observe DST.
Iran starts DST on the first day of Farvardin in the Iranian calendar and ends on the last day of Shahrivar. The dates used on this site are approximate. See Iran Daylight Saving time at Wikipedia.