The Chicago area is hitting several key milestones in coming days as the end of daylight saving time rapidly approaches.<\/p>\n
Residents have surely noticed that the days are becoming shorter and sunsets are occurring earlier in the day, but the area actually hit a key milestone when it comes to its sunrises on Monday.<\/p>\n
According to the website Time and Date, Chicago\u2019s sunrise occurred after 7 a.m. on Monday, marking the first time the city has hit that milestone since March 16, 2025.<\/p>\n
That sunrise time will shift back up at the conclusion of daylight saving time, but it will quickly move back past 7 a.m. in December, and will ultimately occur at its latest time of the day in early January before sunrise begins to occur earlier, according to the website.<\/p>\n
Another milestone for the Chicago area is rapidly approaching next week, as sunset will occur at 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21, according to the website. That will mark the first pre-6 p.m. sunset the area has seen since all the way back on March 8, the day before daylight saving time began.<\/p>\n
As October ends, Chicago will be seeing 10 hours and 23 minutes of daylight per day, and will be losing more than two minutes of daylight per day.<\/p>\n
Daylight saving time\u2019s end marks the next milestone for the area, occurring on Sunday, November 2. On that date, Chicago\u2019s sunset will occur at 4:43 p.m., and by the time the winter solstice arrives on December 21, the sun will be setting at 4:21 p.m. after just over nine hours of daylight.<\/p>\n
After that date, the Chicago area\u2019s days will slowly start to get longer, with the resumption of daylight saving time arriving on Sunday, March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago area is hitting several key milestones in coming days as the end of daylight saving time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":300886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,97223,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-300885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-daylight-saving-time","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115368925958587364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}