(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Our 6 p.m. sunset days are limited with the sun starting to set sooner and sooner. Daylight Saving Time will end in less than 10 days and we will ‘fall back’ an hour.
As of Friday, there are only five 6 p.m. sunsets left. Thereafter, Halloween will welcome the first 5 p.m. sunset of the year. We will have about ten and a half hours of daylight for the holiday. After that, we will only have a few more 5 p.m. sunsets before we make the drastic jump to 4 p.m. sunsets. It’ll be a bit of a rollercoaster over the next couple of weeks.
Daylight Saving Time officially ends on Nov. 3 and the sky will start to look significantly different around dinnertime. Sunset times will continue to get earlier and earlier all the way up to Dec. 13, then, sunsets will slowly but surely start getting later again.
The Winter Solstice is also just around the corner and will take place on Saturday, Dec. 21. This is the shortest day of the year and will feature less than nine and a half hours of daylight. Compare that to the Summer Solstice when Southern Colorado experiences nearly 15 full hours of daylight.
