Local time · Fargo
What time is it in Fargo, North Dakota?
3:50:03AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 136,285
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Fargo
Fargo is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Fargo sits at 46.86°N, 96.83°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fargo.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Fargo it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.8°W, Fargo sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Fargo today
- Sunrise
- 7:27 am
- Sunset
- 4:55 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 53 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 27 minutes in Fargo, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 21 minutes, from 15 hours 53 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 31 minutes in December.
At 46.9°N that puts Fargo between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.