What time is it in Forest Lake, Minnesota?

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

Forest Lake sits at 45.25°N, 92.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Forest Lake.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Forest Lake it is highest at 1:03 pm today — 63 minutes after clock noon.

At 93.0°W, Forest Lake 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 Forest Lake, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 55 minutes, from 15 hours 39 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 44 minutes in December.

At 45.3°N that puts Forest Lake between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.