What time is it in Minot, North Dakota?
7:05:03 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
- 47,440
Daylight saving in Minot
Minot is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Minot it is highest at 1:36 pm today — 96 minutes after clock noon.
At 101.3°W, Minot 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 Minot today
- Sunrise
- 7:36 am
- Sunset
- 7:36 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours
- Longest day
- 16 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 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.