Save a click, it's 2:18 PM on October 5th.

Carry on.

Why would someone not want to read about autumn...?

There are a number of reasons, hard to say. To each their own. I enjoy autumn, best season for sure. 🙂

I do think it's funny to propose to project 'exact' peak nearly a month in advance. More accurate to say this is just an average timing map that doesn't take into account local weather events this year that impact local peak timing in very different ways. Probably not far off from the ones they published last year, and before.

But that doesn't fit well into a headline as well as 'exact'. 🙂

Every autumn, a wave of red, orange, and gold sweeps south across the country. Here’s when fall colors will be their best across the United States in 2026.