When Will Daylight Savings End in Colorado?

Many people love spring forward, not only because the weather starts to warm up a bit, but because there’s just more daylight outside. 

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This month, Colorado is going to be losing a lot of daylight.

By August 31st, we will have lost 71 minutes of daylight. Each day, it’ll get slightly darker as the summer starts to turn to fall.

Then, of course, comes fall back. 

Some people love it because you get an extra hour of sleep the night before. However, losing one hour of daylight in one fell swoop can be brutal.

For some, seasonal depression can take a big toll on their mental health, with a large part being because of less sunlight.

However, some may be asking right now: I thought Colorado was supposed to get rid of this? What happened to that?

The answer is more complex than you might think. 

Didn’t Colorado Repeal Daylight Savings Time?

It has felt like for some time that people believe that Colorado completely repealed daylight savings time. However, it’s a little more different than that.

In 2022, Colorado passed legislation that would permanently hold the state in daylight savings time. That would mean no more turning your clock back in the fall.

You may have noticed something, however; we’re still moving our clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall.

That’s because a few things need to take place before it can happen.

For one, the federal government needs to create a law that can allow states to choose whether they want to have daylight saving time or standard time.

According to the Coloradoan, the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022 and 2023 got close, but couldn’t drum up enough support in Congress.

If a federal law like the Sunshine Protection Act gets passed, then another step must happen; four other states in our time zone adopting year-round daylight savings.

States like Montana, Utah, and Wyoming have all put measures into place, but other states like Arizona are in permanent standard time.

So in general, there’s a reason why the daylight savings switch has been stuck in limbo for quite some time.

When is Fall Back in Colorado This Year?

Daylight saving time ends on November 3rd in Colorado this year.

When it comes to the day that will have the least amount of sunlight this year, the winter solstice, that will take place on December 21st.