How many seconds since Fall (September Equinox) 2024?

Fall (September Equinox) in plain numbers

As of Thursday, October 1, 2026, Fall (September Equinox) was 739 days ago. Put another way, that is 105 full weeks and 4 extra days, about 24 calendar months, or 17,736 hours if you count from midnight. The date lands on a Sunday, in ISO week 38 of 2024, and it is day 266 of 366 in that year.

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Planning around the date

For work and school planning the useful numbers are working days and weekends. Between Fall (September Equinox) and today there are 529 weekdays (Monday to Friday), 105 Saturdays and 105 Sundays. Take out public holidays in your region and you have a realistic count of working days that passed. If you were paid every two weeks over that stretch, that is about 52 pay cycles.

Some people prefer to break a long wait into stages. The quarter mark of the range is Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the halfway point is Friday, September 26, 2025, and the three-quarter mark is Monday, March 30, 2026. Fall (September Equinox) sits 72.7% of the way through 2024. There are 105 Fridays in the range, which is handy if your deadlines or deliveries land at the end of the week.

About Fall (September Equinox)

The September equinox, the astronomical start of Northern Hemisphere autumn, computed each year from the sun's position. Fall (September Equinox) marks an astronomical turning point in the year, which is why it is used to mark the start of a season in almanacs even though meteorologists count seasons by whole months.

Fall (September Equinox) is the moment the sun reaches a particular longitude in its apparent path, calculated astronomically for each year. The date can shift by a day between years because the tropical year is not a whole number of days.

Fall (September Equinox) in other years

In the coming years Fall (September Equinox) falls on: Monday, September 22, 2025 (374 days ago); Wednesday, September 23, 2026 (8 days ago); Thursday, September 23, 2027 (357 days from today); Friday, September 22, 2028 (722 days from today). Last year it fell on Saturday, September 23, 2023. Comparing the weekdays shows how the holiday drifts through the week, which matters when you plan long weekends, school breaks and travel that depends on which day of the week it lands.

What comes next

The next major date after Fall (September Equinox) is Halloween on Thursday, October 31, 2024, 39 days later. If you are planning a stretch of several weeks, it helps to know where the next break or deadline falls so you can space out your commitments.

Using this second counter

Seconds are counted from this moment to midnight at the start of the target date in this site's time zone, and the figure ticks every second while the page is open. It is a fun view for a holiday or a birthday, since a day is 86,400 seconds and a week is 604,800.