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Time in South Dakota, United States now

06:30:47AM

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

South Dakota has 2 time zones. The time zone for the capital Pierre is used here.
Sun: ↑ 08:13AM ↓ 06:38PM (10h 25m) - More info - Make South Dakota time default - Add to favorite locations

UTC -5

Central Time (CT)
now 1 hour behind New York

From 2 November 2025: UTC -6 / Central Standard Time (CST)
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 March 9 2025

Latest change: Summer time started

Sunday November 2 2025

Next change: Winter time starts

Sunrise: 08:13AM
Sunset: 06:38PM
Day length: 10h 25m
Solar noon: 01:25PM
The current local time in South Dakota is 85 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

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