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Early Morning Daycare Near Me

Daycares that open before 7 AM across 50 states and DC. Search your town to see each one's hours, ages and, where we hold it, the state record.

daycares that open before 7 AM
42,925
states
50
in Texas
6,146
in Milwaukee, WI
1,313

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State license recordInspection records
What puts a daycare on this listThe hours on its state license record open before 7 AM, or run 24 hours. Where the state publishes no hours, its public business listing gives the same opening time before 7 AM on every weekday.This list reads the hours on state license records in 18 states and DC. Elsewhere it uses the hours on each daycare's public business listing, when the listing gives the same opening time before 7 AM on every weekday. Call to confirm the time.Each listing shows its opening time. Ask whether it opens that early every day.

By state

Early morning daycare by state

Pick a state on the map or in the list to see its towns, A to Z.

Map of US states shaded by number of listings. The list of states below links to each state page.

Under 100100+300+1,000+2,000+Not listed yet
Alabama1,449Alaska20Arizona468Arkansas460California1,135Colorado194Connecticut1,012Delaware453District of Columbia76Florida1,935Georgia2,335Hawaii99Idaho124Illinois1,142Indiana1,724Iowa290Kansas239Kentucky393Louisiana816Maine71Maryland84Massachusetts236Michigan534Minnesota505Mississippi327Missouri2,184Montana72Nebraska1,669Nevada146New Hampshire90New Jersey506New Mexico200New York766North Carolina970North Dakota70Ohio2,680Oklahoma1,034Oregon278Pennsylvania2,348Rhode Island81South Carolina361South Dakota63Tennessee1,405Texas6,146Utah219Vermont115Virginia1,816Washington338West Virginia58Wisconsin3,149Wyoming40
Top 10 states
Top 10 statesListed
Texas6,146
Wisconsin3,149
Ohio2,680
Pennsylvania2,348
Georgia2,335
Missouri2,184
Florida1,935
Virginia1,816
Indiana1,724
Nebraska1,669
Daycares that open before 7 AM listed per state, October 2026.

Towns

Largest towns

Only towns with 3 or more have their own early morning daycare page.

Milwaukee, WI1,313 open before 7 AMHouston, TX843 open before 7 AMOmaha, NE520 open before 7 AMIndianapolis, IN402 open before 7 AMPhiladelphia, PA389 open before 7 AMSan Antonio, TX375 open before 7 AMSt Louis, MO303 open before 7 AMCincinnati, OH281 open before 7 AMChicago, IL270 open before 7 AMMemphis, TN268 open before 7 AMOklahoma City, OK231 open before 7 AMColumbus, OH230 open before 7 AMFort Worth, TX225 open before 7 AMEl Paso, TX198 open before 7 AMDallas, TX198 open before 7 AMLincoln, NE192 open before 7 AMKansas City, MO185 open before 7 AMKaty, TX181 open before 7 AMCleveland, OH163 open before 7 AMMiami, FL154 open before 7 AMWaterbury, CT148 open before 7 AMTulsa, OK142 open before 7 AMKilleen, TX135 open before 7 AMSpring, TX129 open before 7 AM

Before you enroll

Choosing early morning care

  1. 1

    Check the opening time

    Each listing shows its hours. Ask whether staff are there to take children at opening every day.

  2. 2

    Ask about breakfast

    Ask whether children who arrive early get breakfast, and whether you send it.

  3. 3

    Ask about the early group

    Some daycares combine age groups early in the morning. Ask who is with your child until the rooms open.

  4. 4

    Check the license record

    Open a listing for its state license, its hours as the state lists them and the inspection record.

Other programs

Daycare Near Me210,469Infant daycare73,843In-home daycares82,532Montessori schools5,643Christian & church daycares12,236Preschools & pre-K105,148Affordable daycare51,74524-hour daycare1,068Night daycare9,508Weekend daycare3,587Part-time daycare7,360Drop-in daycare1,785After-school care90,135Bilingual daycare2,549Head Start10,675Florida VPK5,453

Questions

Questions about early morning daycare

Which daycares near me open at 6 AM?

22,468 daycares open at 6 AM or earlier by the hours we hold. All 42,925 on this list open before 7 AM. Call to confirm the time.

Which daycares near me open at 5 AM?

2,690 open at 5 AM or earlier, 1,068 of them open 24 hours.

How much does daycare cost?

It varies by county. In the middle US county, full-time preschool-age care at a center has a median of $144 a week (U.S. Department of Labor, 2022). That median covers all centers, so ask each daycare for its rates.

Are these daycares licensed?

Most are. A listing from a state child care license record shows the license as the state publishes it. The others, where no state license record is available, come from public business listings; their pages say that no license record is matched yet.