What time is it in Rochester, Minnesota?

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

Rochester sits at 44.01°N, 92.48°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rochester.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Rochester it is highest at 1:01 pm today — 61 minutes after clock noon.

At 92.5°W, Rochester 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 Rochester, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 36 minutes, from 15 hours 29 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 53 minutes in December.

At 44.0°N that puts Rochester between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.