Local time · Brookings
What time is it in Brookings, 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
- 24,555
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Brookings
Brookings is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Brookings sits at 44.30°N, 96.79°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Brookings.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Brookings it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.8°W, Brookings sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Brookings today
- Sunrise
- 7:20 am
- Sunset
- 5:02 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 41 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 32 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 41 minutes in Brookings, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 41 minutes, from 15 hours 32 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 51 minutes in December.
At 44.3°N that puts Brookings between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.