122 Simple Fall Instagram Captions to Share in 2023

The weather is turning cool and crisp, and it's time to pull out your sweaters and order up some pumpkin spice lattes. With all those leaves falling in photogenic yellows and oranges and reds, there are plenty of autumn photo ops you'll want to document, from frame-worthy scenery pics to snaps of you and your friends enjoying fall activities (hay ride anyone?). But what to say? Not to fear. Here, you'll find more than 100 fall captions for Instagram.

Scroll on down to find just the right words to capture that fall vibe in your photo captions, from fall puns to song lyrics to fun seasonal sayings and quotes. Some are funny, some are cute, some are filled with emojis. All are pretty simple, with lots of options that cleverly nod to the falling leaves, be-leaf us.

Looking for more inspiration for your words? Check out these memorable fall quotes, these Halloween Instagram captions (that will make you laugh), and these Thanksgiving Instagram captions begging to be used when you eat all that turkey. Now time to read through these fall captions and pick the right one(s) for your pics!

Best Fall Instagram Captions

• Happy fall, y’all.
• My favorite color is October.
• Gone leaf peeping!
• Hello, autumn.
• 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.
• Hay there!
• Will brake for fall photo ops.
• 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 enjoy fall.
• 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.
• 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.
• Orange is the new black.
• Long sleeves and autumn leaves.

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.

Captions About Falling Leaves

• Would you be-leaf I took this photo on the first try?
• Don't stop be-leafing.
• I'm turning over a new leaf.
• Leaf me alone.
• First signs of fall.
• Turning over a new leaf.
• Even the leaves fall for you.
• Always jump in the leaf pile.
• Will road trip for fall leaves.
• I'm falling in love...
• Autumn leaves, cool breeze.
• Don't leaf me hanging.
• Foliage is power.

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!
• Can you 🐝🍁 this fall weather?!
• You're unbe🍁able.
• I love you more than 🎃 pie.
• Autumn leaves + pumpkin pies = the 🔑 to my ❤️.

Fall Captions for Dog

• 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.

Quotes for Fall Captions

• "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
• "My favorite color is October." — Unknown
• "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

Song Lyrics for Fall Captions

• “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

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.