Local time · Minot
What time is it in Minot, North Dakota?
3:50:33AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 47,440
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Minot
Minot is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Minot sits at 48.24°N, 101.28°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Minot.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Minot it is highest at 12:29 pm today — 29 minutes after clock noon.
At 101.3°W, Minot sits 45 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 45 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Minot today
- Sunrise
- 7:49 am
- Sunset
- 5:09 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 19 minutes
- Longest day
- 16 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 19 minutes in Minot, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 45 minutes, from 16 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 20 minutes in December.
At 48.2°N that puts Minot between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.