On November 2, 2026, the sun will rise at 07:13 and set at 17:12, giving the day a total of 599 minutes of daylight against 841 minutes of night. That is day 306 of the year, which places us firmly in late autumn, with the long slide toward winter well underway. It has been 134 days since the summer solstice, and we still have 139 days to go before the next equinox, meaning daylight will keep losing ground to darkness for quite a while yet.

Since the autumn equinox, the day has already shed a cumulative 89 minutes of daylight, and today alone will trim another 6 minutes from the ledger. The loss is evenly split, with sunrise arriving 3 minutes later and sunset departing 3 minutes earlier, as if the sun is quietly tightening its hours on both ends. It is a slow, methodical retreat, the kind of schedule adjustment that suggests the sun has seen the forecast and decided to start leaving work early.