The clocks go back an hour in the early hours of next Sunday, starting winter time.
Early Sunday morning (29 October), in mainland Portugal and in the autonomous region of Madeira when they are 2 hours the clocks must be set back 60 minutes, going to 1 hour.
in the Azores, the change will be made to 1 hours of Sunday morning, going to 0 hours.
The current time of regime change is governed by a policy (Community law) of 2000, which provides that every year the clocks are, respectively, early and back an hour on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday in October, marking the beginning and end of daylight saving time.
