What time is it in Grand Forks, North Dakota?
7:05:31 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Central Daylight Time, UTC−5:00.
- Time zone
- Central Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 59,845
Daylight saving in Grand Forks
Grand Forks is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Grand Forks sits at 47.92°N, 97.09°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Grand Forks.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Grand Forks it is highest at 1:19 pm today — 79 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.1°W, Grand Forks 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.
Daylight in Grand Forks today
- Sunrise
- 7:19 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours
- Longest day
- 16 hours 2 minutes
Today runs 12 hours in Grand Forks, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 39 minutes, from 16 hours 2 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 23 minutes in December.
At 47.9°N that puts Grand Forks between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.