What time is it in Moorhead, Minnesota?

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

Moorhead sits at 46.86°N, 96.74°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Moorhead.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Moorhead it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.

At 96.7°W, Moorhead 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 Moorhead, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 21 minutes, from 15 hours 53 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 31 minutes in December.

At 46.9°N that puts Moorhead between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.