The Best Outdoor Light Timer: My Favorite New Gadget!

In this post: I’m sharing the BEST outdoor light timer that automatically turns on your outdoor lights at night and off in the morning!

Most of the time I’m pretty take-it-or-leave-it with home gadgetry but this one I actually love – it’s a programmable outdoor light timer that turns your lights on and off for you. We installed it for our outdoor flood lights and programmed them to automatically go on at sunset and off at sunrise (you can also specify your own on and off times or put it on random mode which is nice for when you’re on vacation). It’s been great because the switch to our outdoor lights is inconveniently upstairs so it was a pain to turn them on and hard to remember to turn them off (so this baby should save us some bucks in the long run!).  (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here})

The one that we installed is the Honeywell Programmable Switch found {HERE} that has great ratings on Amazon, no minimum wattage required (so it’s compatible with CFLs and LEDs), and a backlit display so you can see it at night. It can be placed on almost any single pole switch that has a neutral wire. It comes with detailed instructions so was a pretty simple DIY but as with anything electrical, hire an electrician if you aren’t 100% comfortable with doing it yourself. 

Update! We’ve now had our outdoor light timer for over a year and it’s the best! Now anytime we go out at night, you can be guaranteed that the outdoor lights will be on yet they go off on their own every morning – definitely one of my favorite buys!

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend! I’ll be back here next week with (hopefully) the “after” of my nightmarish it-took-forever-to-sand project – see you then!