As the dog days of summer wane, it’s time to break out your favorite fall-scented candles and cozy scarves in celebration of the fact that you can finally step outside without your face melting off. Even if you love the warm weather, there’s still something nice about being outdoors on a crisp fall day — with a hot cup of coffee or cider warming your hands — when the leaves are changing color. Or watching your kids dive into a massive pile of crunchy foliage and seeing shades of red, yellow, brown, and orange scatter. Those are the kind of fall family moments you want to capture on camera and see pop up in your memories each year. And to really round out the autumnal images, you’ll need some cute fall Instagram captions to adorn your photos.

What is your favorite fall pastime? Are you the outdoorsy type? Hiking, camping, corn mazes, bonfires (and s’mores, of course!), and jumping in leaf piles are all classic ways to spend a brisk fall afternoon or evening. If you prefer staying in, there’s no better time of year to snuggle up with a warm drink and a book.

Well, like your kid in that pile of leaves, you’re covered — we rounded up fall Instagram captions for every occasion. We’ve got fall Instagram captions that are cute, funny, based on activities, and even based on memorable quotes. Although these aren’t just for Instagram… these captions work for TikTok or any other social media platform of your choosing.

Whatever your activity of choice, we’re here to help you caption those social media-worthy snaps. So, feel free to bookmark this page and come back to it all season long.

Cute Fall Instagram Captions

1. Oh, autumn… it’s nice to see you again.
2. But I love fall most of all.
3. Keep calm and enjoy fall.
4. Leaves are falling, & autumn is calling.
5. Sweater weather is better together.
6. I only have pies for you.
7. Meet me under the falling leaves.
8. FALLing in love.
9. I like you a latte.
10. Cutest pumpkin in the patch.
11. You’re the apple of my eye.
12. Pumpkin kisses, harvest wishes.
13. Life is better in a sweater.
14. Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.
15. Fall foliage is my favorite color.
16. PSLs and stuff.
17. Keep calm and stay cozy.
18. Tea and fuzzy socks season.
19. Autumn skies and everything’s fine.
20. You’re the pick of the patch.
21. Life is gourd.
22. These fall leaves are just a-maiz-ing.
23. Falling for fall.
24. Awwtumn.
25. Witch season.
26. Hello, pumpkin.
27. Everything falls into place.
28. The leaves are about to show us how lovely it is to let go.
29. My favorite color is October.
30. Fall is a form of self-care.

Funny Fall Instagram Captions

1. Oh my gourd, I love fall!
2. Give them pumpkin to talk about.
3. Hate to be corny, but…
4. I’m turning over a new leaf.
5. Fall? Oh, you mean football season.
6. The only thing getting “lit” this weekend is my pumpkin spice candle.
7. #SquashGoals
8. Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maple leaves.
9. Fall so hard.
10. Channel the flannel.
11. PSL pics or it didn’t happen.
12. Never fear, pumpkin-flavored everything is here!
13. May the forest be with you.
14. Orange is the new black.
15. Hay baby, hay baby, hay!
16. Don’t stop be-leafing.
17. Don’t even chai to say you love fall more than me.
18. September’s finest.
19. Stressed, blessed, pumpkin obsessed.
20. If you don’t like fall, you can leaf me alone.
21. PSL aka LOML.
22. I’d like to see you s’more.
23. Spice, spice baby.
24. Felt cute, might de-leaf later.
25. With my boo things.
26. Pumpkin spice = life.
27. I should stop making apple puns now… orchard I?
28. Fall so hard motha pumpkins wanna spice me.
29. Summer, I don’t miss you.
30. Fall — my second favorite f word.

Fall Instagram Captions Based On Activities

1. How ’bout them apples?
2. Go big or gourd home.
3. We got lost in this maize.
4. Let’s get smashed!
5. Can’t reply, eating a pie.
6. Eat, drink, and be scary.
7. Is it really a pile of leaves if you haven’t jumped in it?
8. Tea, a hug in a cup.
9. Crisp.
10. You are the pick of the patch.
11. Get in, loser — we’re going to get PSLs.
12. Crockpots are stewing and warm beverages are brewing.
13. Ignite your campfire desire.
14. Early sunsets, hot tea, messy hair, cozy sweaters.
15. Turtlenecks and chilly treks.
16. Throwing leaves.
17. Firepits and cozy knits.
18. Warm drinks and rom-coms all night long.
19. Brisk hikes give me life.
20. Hayrides are my preferred mode of fall transportation.
21. Rake. Pile. Jump. Repeat.
22. Here for the boos.
23. I pick you!
24. Leaves are falling, and books are calling.
25. Flannel.
26. Ate an apple after this pic.
27. Jumped in a pile of leaves after this.
28. Hay, girl, hay.
29. Fall, flannel, and football.
30. Fall Netflix movies + chill.

Fall Captions Pulled From Song Lyrics

1. “And when I felt like I was an old cardigan, under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite.” — Taylor Swift, “Cardigan”
2. “Amber is the color of your energy.” — 311, “Amber”
3. “Something in the orange tells me we’re not done.” — Zach Bryan, “Something in the Orange”
4. “The autumn moon lights my way.” — Led Zeppelin, “Ramble On”
5. “You in your autumn sweater.” — Yo La Tengo, “Autumn Sweater”
6. “Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last/Wake me up when September ends.” — Green Day, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”
7. “I light all the candles.” — Lorde, “Hard Feelings”
8. “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place.” — Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”
9. “Fall is here/hear the yell.” — The White Stripes, “We’re Going To Be Friends”
10. “Float down/Like autumn leaves.” — Ed Sheeran, “Autumn Leaves”
11. “Oh, but here it is October/Oh, the leaves are turning gold/Each night’s a little bluer/But autumn’s not that cold.” — Lorrie Morgan, “Autumn’s Not That Cold”
12. “Windows swung right open, autumn air.” — Taylor Swift, “Cornelia Street”
13. “I come alive in the fall time.” — The Weeknd, “Starboy”
14. “I’m still in love with you/On this harvest moon.” — Neil Young, “Harvest Moon”
15. “The gleaming rooftops at sundown/Oh, autumn in New York.” — Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, “Autumn in New York”
16. “And I’ll begin to feel the chill of an early fall/And I’ll drinking again and thinking whenever he calls/There’s a storm comin’ on/It won’t be too long ‘til the snow falls.” — George Strait, “Chill of an Early Fall”
17. “Oh, oh, oh/This autumn love.” — Death Cab for Cutie, “Autumn Love”
18. “Friday evenings, people get together/Hiding from the weather.” — The Kinks, “Autumn Almanac”
19. “Look what you did to me, autumn.” — Ben Rector, “Autumn”
20. “The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin, but as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared, my heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within.” — Fiona Apple, “Pale September”
21. “Like the colors in autumn, so bright, just before they lose it all.” — Taylor Swift, “Red”
22. “‘Cause it’s too cold for you here and now, so let me hold both your hands in the holes of my sweater.” — The Neighborhood, “Sweater Weather”
23. “A fantabulous night to make romance/’Neath the cover of October skies/And all the leaves on the trees are falling/To the sound of the breezes that blow.” — Van Morrison, “Moondance”
24. “The autumn chill that wakes me up/You loved the amber skies so much.” — Taylor Swift, “Marjorie”
25. “In this autumn town where the leaves can fall on either side of the garden wall, we laugh all night to keep the embers glowing.” — Iron & Wine, “Autumn Town Leaves”

Fall Instagram Captions Based On Quotes

1. “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde
2. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
3. “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” — Raquel Franco
4. “The leaves turn color, the grasses wither; the beasts sense the advance of a long, hungry season. And bowing to their vision, I too know a sadness.” — Haruki Murakami
5. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf
6. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë
7. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
8. “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” — Truman Capote
9. “November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” ― Anne Bosworth Greene
10. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize.” — George Eliot
11. “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
12. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen
13. “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burrows
14. “I am such an autumn person. Give me a quiet, cozy spot with a simple view of gorgeous trees with colorful leaves on a crisp September day, fuzzy socks, a warm drink, and a good book, and I will be in all my glory.” — McKenna Kaelin
15. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
16. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of 1st September was crips and golden as an apple.” — J.K. Rowling
17. “There is a harmony in autumn and a luster in its sky …” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. “Be like a tree, and let the dead leaves drop.” — Rumi
19. “Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono
20. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” — Ann Drake
21. “Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
22. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. “Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.” — William Wordsworth
24. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens
25. “You return like autumn, and I fall every time.” — faraway