| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +9h | Becomes +10h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +15h | Becomes +16h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 1 Nov |
Fargo, United States runs on UTC−5. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Fargo and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Fargo lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Fargo and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Fargo lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Fargo and Tokyo is 14 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Chicago, Dallas, Houston. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Fargo.
Fargo (United States) is home to roughly 130K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 19:09. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 47° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CDT · America/Chicago
Coordinates
46.88°N, 96.79°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
The *1996 film Fargo*** was filmed largely in Minnesota and set mostly in Brainerd, with only a few minutes actually in Fargo. The city leaned in anyway and keeps the wood chipper prop in its visitor centre.
The clock: Fargo keeps Central Time. Its winter wind chills regularly reach −40°C, at which point Celsius and Fahrenheit agree.
Fargo lies at 96.8°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 6.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 27 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:27 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 87 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:27.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 53m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 31m. The swing between them is 7h 21m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Fargo the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:32, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 21:26. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Fargo that civil twilight runs about 30 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 40 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Fargo, United States is America/Chicago with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Fargo has an estimated population of 130K and is located at coordinates 46.88°N, 96.79°W.
Fargo gets 15h 53m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 31m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Fargo falls at about 12:27 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 6.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Film Set Somewhere Else: The 1996 film Fargo was filmed largely in Minnesota and set mostly in Brainerd, with only a few minutes actually in Fargo. The city leaned in anyway and keeps the wood chipper prop in its visitor centre.