Local time · Rochester
What time is it in Rochester, Minnesota?
3:49:43AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 123,624
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Rochester
Rochester is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Rochester it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 92.5°W, Rochester sits 10 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Rochester today
- Sunrise
- 7:02 am
- Sunset
- 4:45 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 43 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 29 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 43 minutes in Rochester, and the day is getting shorter by 2 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.