Local time · Moorhead
What time is it in Moorhead, Minnesota?
3:49:40AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 45,726
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Moorhead
Moorhead is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Moorhead it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.7°W, Moorhead sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Moorhead today
- Sunrise
- 7:27 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 53 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 27 minutes 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.