Local time · Aberdeen
What time is it in Aberdeen, South Dakota?
3:51:12AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 27,919
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Aberdeen
Aberdeen is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Aberdeen sits at 45.46°N, 98.47°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Aberdeen.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Aberdeen it is highest at 12:18 pm today — 18 minutes after clock noon.
At 98.5°W, Aberdeen sits 34 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 34 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Aberdeen today
- Sunrise
- 7:30 am
- Sunset
- 5:05 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 35 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 41 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 35 minutes in Aberdeen, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 58 minutes, from 15 hours 41 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 42 minutes in December.
At 45.5°N that puts Aberdeen between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.