Fall Trick-or-Treat Hours & Curfew (2026)

Halloween 2026 falls on Saturday, October 31. Some cities push curfew an hour later on a Saturday night, and others move it earlier for Halloween specifically. Find the hour that applies where you live, the ages it covers, and the fine.

The table below breaks down the rules across 50 states and 423 cities and counties. Every entry is based on the actual municipal code for that location, not a guess or a generic template. Click any location to see the full ordinance details, including fines, exceptions, and local FAQs.

Halloween 2026 falls on Saturday, October 31, and in a lot of cities that buys an extra hour. Kenosha bars anyone under 18 from public places between 10:30 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. Sunday through Thursday, but midnight to 6:00 A.M. on Friday and Saturday (§ 11.05). Frederick sets curfew hours beginning at 11:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:59 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, for unemancipated juveniles under 17 (§ 15-11(a)). Troy runs 10:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday (§ 195-6), and Orland Park moves from 10:30 P.M. on weeknights to 11:30 P.M. on Saturday through 6:00 A.M. on Sunday (§ 8-5-3-2).

The extra hour is not universal, and in some places Halloween pulls curfew the other way. Tinley Park normally lets under-17s stay out until 12:01 a.m. on a Saturday, yet its ordinance adds a third window specifically for "8:00 p.m. on October 31 (Halloween Day) and 6:30 a.m. the following day" (§ 133.50(A)). Brick Township runs a 10:00 p.m. curfew the rest of the year and tightens it to 8:00 p.m. between October 30 and November 1 (§ 150-2). So on the one night the question actually matters, a Saturday can be the earliest curfew of the week rather than the latest.

A few towns have no year-round juvenile curfew at all and switch one on just for Halloween. Freehold Township bars anyone under 18 from public places between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of each and every day during the period from October 28 to November 1, and nothing outside it (§ 127-1). Old Bridge Township names three dates and nothing else: October 29, 30 and 31, each from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the next morning (§ 114-1). Yonkers applies its curfew on Halloween night alone and tiers it by age, 11:00 p.m. for minors, 10:30 p.m. for juveniles and 10:00 p.m. for children, each running to 6:00 a.m. on November 1 (§ 70-3).

Age changes the answer as much as the day does. Waukegan gives the Saturday 12:01 a.m. hour only to 16- and 17-year-olds; children under 14 are due in at 9:00 p.m. every day of the week, and 14- and 15-year-olds at 10:00 p.m. (§ 15-16(a)). Twin Falls splits it the same way with a one-minute courtesy, 11:59 P.M. on Friday and Saturday for under-18s against 10:59 P.M. for under-16s (§ 6-6-4). One more thing worth saying plainly: these ordinances set how late a child may be out, not when trick-or-treating starts. Start and end times for the event itself usually come from a parks department notice or a mayoral proclamation, so check your city's announcement for those and use the pages here for the hour that carries a fine.