What time is it in Sioux Falls, South Dakota?
7:05:17 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
- 209,289
Daylight saving in Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Sioux Falls sits at 43.54°N, 96.73°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sioux Falls.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Sioux Falls it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.7°W, Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 7:19 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Sioux Falls, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 29 minutes, from 15 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 43.5°N that puts Sioux Falls between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.