What time is it in Hopkins, Minnesota?
7:55:07 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Central Daylight Time, UTC−5:00.
- Time zone
- Central Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 19,462
Daylight saving in Hopkins
Hopkins is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Hopkins sits at 44.93°N, 93.40°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hopkins.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Hopkins it is highest at 1:05 pm today — 65 minutes after clock noon.
At 93.4°W, Hopkins 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.
Daylight in Hopkins today
- Sunrise
- 7:04 am
- Sunset
- 7:05 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 36 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Hopkins, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 50 minutes, from 15 hours 36 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 44.9°N that puts Hopkins between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.