What time is it in Prior Lake, Minnesota?

Prior 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.

Prior Lake sits at 44.73°N, 93.44°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Prior Lake.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Prior Lake it is highest at 1:05 pm today — 65 minutes after clock noon.

At 93.4°W, Prior 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 Prior Lake, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 47 minutes, from 15 hours 35 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 48 minutes in December.

At 44.7°N that puts Prior Lake between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.