| 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 |
Sioux Falls, 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 Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls (United States) is home to roughly 200K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:23, sunset at 19:10. 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 44° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CDT · America/Chicago
Coordinates
43.55°N, 96.73°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
The Big Sioux River drops about 30 metres across a series of quartzite ledges inside Sioux Falls, moving around 28,000 litres a second on average. The city's first settlers came specifically for the water power.
The clock: Sioux Falls keeps Central Time, though the western half of South Dakota keeps Mountain — the boundary between the zones runs roughly down the Missouri.
Sioux Falls lies at 96.7°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 6.7° 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 26m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 56m. The swing between them is 6h 30m. 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 Sioux Falls the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:45, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 21:12. 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 Sioux Falls that civil twilight runs about 29 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 36 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 Sioux Falls, United States is America/Chicago with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Sioux Falls has an estimated population of 200K and is located at coordinates 43.55°N, 96.73°W.
Sioux Falls gets 15h 26m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Sioux Falls falls at about 12:27 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 6.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Waterfall in the Middle of Town: The Big Sioux River drops about 30 metres across a series of quartzite ledges inside Sioux Falls, moving around 28,000 litres a second on average. The city's first settlers came specifically for the water power.