It’s that time of year again: the days are getting shorter and shorter, the temperatures have dropped and the summer sunshine has been replaced by rain, snow and autumn winds.
The colourful summer clothes have been swapped for layers of black, white and grey, scarves, gloves and woolly hats. Judging by some shops, Christmas already feels right around the corner.
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But there’s one thing perhaps more than any other that signifies this shift towards the end of the year: the clocks changing – specifically, in this case, the clocks going back an hour (as if it wasn't dark enough already in the evenings?).
When do the clocks change next in Sweden in 2024?
In 2024, daylight saving time ends and clocks go back one hour in the early hours of Sunday, 27th October from 3am to 2am, which means that night we’ll all have an extra hour of sleep.
Daylight saving time in Sweden means that in the summer it stays lighter later, while in the winter it gets darker earlier. The objective of the changes twice a year is to adjust the working day with the daily daylight hours so that we can benefit from more natural light.
Crucially for us now at the backend of the year, this means that it will get lighter earlier in the mornings and darker earlier in the evenings.
Of course, in the 21st century mobile phone clocks usually take care of going back without our help, but any clocks, alarm clocks and so on should be changed accordingly.
We’ll have several months of winter time then, and clocks will next go forward on Sunday, March 30th 2025.
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