Local time · Williston
What time is it in Williston, North Dakota?
2:50:02AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 28,821
- City proper
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About this clock
Williston does not keep North Dakota's usual time
Most of North Dakota is on Central Standard Time, but Williston keeps Mountain Standard Time — 1 hour behind the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Williston is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Williston sits at 48.19°N, 103.65°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Williston.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Williston it is highest at 11:38 am today — 22 minutes before clock noon.
At 103.6°W, Williston sits almost exactly on Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Williston today
- Sunrise
- 6:59 am
- Sunset
- 4:18 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 20 minutes
- Longest day
- 16 hours 4 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 20 minutes in Williston, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 44 minutes, from 16 hours 4 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 20 minutes in December.
At 48.2°N that puts Williston between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.