What time is it in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota?

Brooklyn Center is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Brooklyn Center sits at 45.07°N, 93.32°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Brooklyn Center.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Brooklyn Center it is highest at 1:04 pm today — 64 minutes after clock noon.

At 93.3°W, Brooklyn Center sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Brooklyn Center, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 52 minutes, from 15 hours 38 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 45 minutes in December.

At 45.1°N that puts Brooklyn Center between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.