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Time in South Dakota, United States now

02:44:58AM

Thursday, November 21, 2024

South Dakota has 2 time zones. The time zone for the capital Pierre is used here.
Sun: ↑ 07:45AM ↓ 05:10PM (9h 26m) - More info - Make South Dakota time default - Add to favorite locations

UTC -6

Central Time (CT)
now 1 hour behind New York

From 9 March 2025: UTC -5 / Central Daylight Time (CDT)
The time in South Dakota is normally one hour behind the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in South Dakota can for a short while be two hours behind or the same as the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for South Dakota is America/Chicago.

Sunday November 3 2024

Latest change: Winter time started

Sunday March 9 2025

Next change: Summer time starts

Sunrise: 07:45AM
Sunset: 05:10PM
Day length: 9h 26m
Solar noon: 12:27PM
The current local time in South Dakota is 27 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from NOAA.
See showyourstripes.info.