Local time · Oakdale
What time is it in Oakdale, Minnesota?
3:50:17AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 30,441
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Oakdale
Oakdale is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Oakdale sits at 44.99°N, 92.96°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Oakdale.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Oakdale it is highest at 11:56 am today — 4 minutes before clock noon.
At 93.0°W, Oakdale sits 12 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Oakdale today
- Sunrise
- 7:07 am
- Sunset
- 4:45 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 38 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 37 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 38 minutes in Oakdale, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 51 minutes, from 15 hours 37 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 45.0°N that puts Oakdale between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.