It’s that time of the year again. The clocks haven’t even fallen back an hour for the end of Daylight Saving Time (that will happen at 2 a.m. on Nov. 2 this year), but the sun is already setting a bit earlier each day.
It won’t be long before every region of New Jersey will be dark before 7 p.m.
Depending on the location and altitude of your town, pre-7 p.m. sunsets will occur as early as Sept. 18 to as late as Sept. 22 — the first official day of the fall season , known as the autumn equinox .
When sun will set before 7 p.m.
Here’s the first day of 2025 that the sun will set before 7 p.m. in each region of New Jersey, according to data from TimeAndDate.com :
Atlantic City — Sept. 19 (6:59 p.m.)
Belmar — Sept. 18 (6:59 p.m.)
Belvidere — Sept. 21 (6:58 p.m.)
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