170 Simple Fall Instagram Captions That Capture the Awe in Autumn

Is there anything better than the arrival of cool, crisp weather after a seemingly never-ending hot summer? To help celebrate all the goodness of autumn, we rounded up 170 fall captions to post with your pics on Instagram of those red and orange fall leaves and all your favorite fall activities (hay ride, anyone?)

Be-leaf us, you’ll find plenty of funny autumn captions and cute ones too, plus short, simple captions for couples and for friends, all sure to remind you of why fall is the best season of all. Still looking for inspiration? Try a fall quote or put a smile on someone’s face with one of these fall puns. And when our favorite fall holidays come up, you’ll want to check out Halloween Instagram captions and Thanksgiving Instagram captions for all your costume and turkey day pics.

Simple Fall Instagram Captions

• Happy fall, y’all.
• My favorite color is October.
• Gone leaf peeping!
• Hello, autumn.
• Will road trip for fall leaves.
• Pumpkin spice and everything nice!
• Blessed and pumpkin obsessed.
• It’s sweater weather!
• Falling into autumn like…
• Cutest pumpkin in the patch.
• FALLing in love.
• Autumn leaves, cool breeze.
• Hay there!
• Leaf me alone.
• Will brake for fall photo ops.
• Foliage is power.
• Fall-elujah!
• POV: Autumn’s your favorite season, and Starbucks just released their fall drink menu.

Cute Fall Captions

• Feeling cozy. Might delete later.
• I love you s’more.
• Keep calm and autumn on.
• We got lost in this maize.
• If you don’t like sappy puns, you better leaf right now.
• I only have pies for you.
• Meet me under the falling leaves.
• Smashing pumpkins.
• You’re the apple of my eye.
• I’m spicing things up.
• Would you be-leaf I took this photo on the first try?
• I like you a latte.
• How ’bout them apples?
• I’m amaized we escaped.
• I picked a good apple.
  
• You’re the pick of the patch.
• Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.
  
• Aw, shucks.
  
• Cute as apple pie.
• Sweater weather is better together.
• Keep calm and stay cozy.
• I love you more than pumpkin pie—and that’s saying a lot.
• Turning over a new leaf.
• Orange is the new black.
• Long sleeves and autumn leaves.
• I saw a leaf turn! Fall is here!
• Don’t stop be-leafing.
• It’s a pumpkin spice kind of day.
• How can you not love fall most of all?
  
• Scarves and stripes, forever!
• Now entering my sweater era.

Funny Fall Captions

• Fall? Oh, you mean football season.
• Piece (of pumpkin pie) out.
• Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maple leaves.
• My favorite fall outfit is a har-vest.
• Go big or gourd home.
• Fall so hard.
• #SquashGoals
• The only thing getting “lit” this weekend is my pumpkin spice candle.
• New season, who ’dis?
• Channel the flannel.
• Don’t even chai to say you like fall more than me.
• Feeling gourd-geous.
• What’s my blood type? Pumpkin spice.
  
• Hate to be corny, but...
• Spice, spice, baby.
• Dear gourd!
• Wow, you’re jacked.
• If you’ve got it, haunt it!
• Orange you glad autumn is here.
• Get in loser. We’re going trick-or-treating.
• What a wonder-fall world!
• Can’t reply, I’m eating pumpkin pie.

Fall Captions for Friends

• Let’s go leaf-peeping!
• (Finally) sweater weather
• My favorite way to spend a fall day.
• The best weather and the best people.
• You’re the Lane to my Rory.
• Perfect fall day with my besties.
• It’s time for an adventure!
• Cheers to good friends and falling leaves.
• With you, every day is Friendsgiving.
• A day spent with friends is never wasted.
• It’s tailgate time: Your house or mine?
• Blessed by my besties.
• You’ve got a friend in me.
• You’re one in a million.
• Thick as thieves as we walk through the leaves.
• There’s nothing better than fall with y’all.
• PSLs are on me!
• Don’t leaf me hanging.

Fall Captions for Couples

• Fall is better with you.
• I love you more than sweater weather.
• Fall vibes.
• I’m falling in love...
• You’re the pick of the patch.
• This might be corny, but you’re a-maize-ing!
• Fall hikes with my favorite guy.
• Cooler weather means more time for cuddling.
• The apple of my eye...
• Even the leaves fall for you.
• Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about.
• I like you a latte.
• You’re so handsome, even the leaves fall for you.
• Falling for you.
• You’re unbe-leaf-able!
• Babe, you’re the apple to my cider.

Fall Instagram Captions with Emojis

• Goodbye ☀️🌊, hello 🍂🎃🍁.
• You’re the 🍎 of my 👁.
• Fall Sundays were made for 🏈 and 🍺.
• I 🍩 care what you say, fall is the best season!
• Be nice or 🍁.
• 🎃 spice and everything nice.
• I’m the 👑 of autumn!
• Please 🍂 me alone.
• There’s a new 🎃 in the patch!
• I’m turning over a new 🍁.
• Can you 🐝🍁 this fall weather?!
• You’re unbe🍁able.
• I love you more than 🎃 pie.
• Autumn leaves + pumpkin pies = the 🔑 to my ❤️.
• Always jump in the 🍁 pile.
• 🍊 you glad it’s fall at last?

Fall Captions for Dogs

• Putting the aw in autumn.
• The best season, paws down.
• Leaf pile ready.
• There’s nothing cuter than a pup on a fall day.
• Fall favorites: cozy sweater, warm drink, this dog.
• My favorite view.
• I found the cutest pumpkin in the patch.
• The apple of my pie.
• Grab the leash! It’s hiking time.
• Fall weather = nap weather.

Fall Captions Inspired by Quotes

• “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs
• “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” — Unknown
• “There are two times of year: football season and waiting for football season.” — Darius Rucker
• “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler
• “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” — Jim Bishop
• “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” — Shira Tamir
• “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” — Oscar Wilde
• “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” — Unknown
  
• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — Anne of Green Gables
• “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
• “A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” — Winnie the Pooh
• “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” — Raquel Franco
• “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” — Victoria Erickson
• “The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.” —Henry David Thoreau
  
• “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” — You’ve Got Mail
• “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves...” —Virginia Woolf
• “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” —J.K. Rowling
• “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë
  
  

Fall Captions Inspired by Song Lyrics

• “I come alive in the fall time.” — The Weeknd
• “Do you remember the 21^st night of September?” — Earth, Wind & Fire
• “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place. And I can picture it after all these days.” — Taylor Swift
• “Wake me up when September ends.” — Green Day
• “It’s time to let go of this endless summer afternoon.” — Lorde
• “Let me hold both your hands in the holes of my sweater.” — The Neighbourhood
• “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.” — Frank Sinatra
• “I’m free, free fallin’.” — Tom Petty
• “Oh, the leaves are turning gold. Each night’s a little bluer, but autumn’s not that cold.” — Lorrie Morgan
• “In little towns like mine, that’s all they’ve got. Newspaper clippings fill the coffee shops, the old men will always think they know it all, and young girls will dream about the boys of fall.” — Kenny Chesney
  
• “It’s autumn in New York; It’s good to live again.” — Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• “It’s harvest time in this little town.” — Luke Bryan
• “Fall, go on and fall apart. Fall into these arms of mine, I’ll catch you every time.” — Clay Walker
• “The autumn moon lights my way.” — Led Zeppelin
• “Now I know why the all the trees change in the fall.” — Taylor Swift
• “October, and the trees are stripped bare, of all they wear...” —U2
  
• “Because I’m still in love with you on this harvest moon...” —Neil Young
  
• “Through the trees comes autumn with her serenade, melodies the sweetest music ever played” —John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• “Fall is here, hear the yell” — The White Stripes
• “Oh oh oh, this autumn love” —Death Cab for Cutie
  

Kelly O'Sullivan

Senior Editor

Kelly O’Sullivan is the senior editor for The Pioneer Woman and manages the website’s social channels, in addition to overseeing content strategy and news.