Local time · Prior Lake
What time is it in Prior Lake, Minnesota?
3:50:41AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 28,018
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Prior Lake
Prior Lake is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Prior Lake it is highest at 11:58 am today — 2 minutes before clock noon.
At 93.4°W, Prior Lake sits 14 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Prior Lake today
- Sunrise
- 7:08 am
- Sunset
- 4:47 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 35 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 39 minutes in Prior Lake, and the day is getting shorter by 2 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.