What time is it in Columbia Heights, Minnesota?

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

Columbia Heights sits at 45.05°N, 93.25°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Columbia Heights.

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

At 93.2°W, Columbia Heights 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 Columbia Heights, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 52 minutes, from 15 hours 37 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 45 minutes in December.

At 45.0°N that puts Columbia Heights between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.