British Summer Time ending soon: what you should know

Sunday, October 26, will mark the end of summer and the start of winter in the UK. The colder season brings darker days and a change to the UK's time zone, meaning everyone gets an extra hour of sleep when the clocks change.

- Jordana Seal, The Independent

Here is everything else you need to know about when and why the clocks “fall” back. When are the clocks going back? Every year, clocks go back an hour at 2am on the last Sunday of October. This year, the clocks will go back on October 26, 2025. When the clocks change, so does the UK's time zone; it switches from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time. It is also known as moving from Daylight Saving Time to Daylight Standard Time. What does this mean for our sunlight? Turning the clocks back moves an hour of sunlight from the evenings to the mornings because sunrises and sunsets occur an hour earlier. The shift marks the buildup to the darkest day of the year known as the winter solstice, which is followed by the latest sunrise.