Sunrise and Sunset Times in North Dakota
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in North Dakota. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.
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Longest and shortest day are the June and December solstice day lengths at each city's own coordinates. Sun vs. clock is how far mean solar noon falls from 12:00 standard time — negative means the Sun peaks before the clock says noon.
| City | Longest day | Shortest day | Swing | Sun vs. clock | Urban pop. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fargo Cass area | 15h 53m | 8h 32m | 7h 21m | +27 min | 231,541 |
| Bismarck Burleigh area | 15h 52m | 8h 32m | 7h 20m | +43 min | 100,537 |
| Grand Forks Grand Forks area | 16h 2m | 8h 23m | 7h 39m | +28 min | 68,373 |
| Minot Ward area | 16h 5m | 8h 20m | 7h 45m | +45 min | 47,791 |
| West Fargo Cass area | 15h 53m | 8h 32m | 7h 21m | +28 min | 40,094 |
| Williston Williams area | 16h 5m | 8h 21m | 7h 44m | +55 min | 28,056 |
| Dickinson Stark area | 15h 53m | 8h 31m | 7h 22m | −9 min | 25,357 |
Sunrise and Sunset in North Dakota
The 7 North Dakota cities listed here span 1.4° of latitude, from Bismarck in the south (46.8°N) to Minot in the north (48.2°N). On the June solstice that puts about 16h 5m of daylight over Minot against 15h 52m over Bismarck — a 13m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median North Dakota city swings 7h 22m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 2h 5m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Minot, where daylight swings 7h 45m between the solstices, and least in Bismarck at 7h 20m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
North Dakota spans more than one time zone (Central Time and Mountain Time), so two cities here can be on different clocks despite similar longitudes. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Williston sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 55 minutes after clock noon and gives it the state's latest-running evenings for its longitude.
Each city page carries that city's full profile: today's sunrise and sunset on a live tracker, a twelve-month table of times, the dates of the year's earliest and latest sunsets, the Sun's midday height by season, a golden-hour calendar, clear-sky solar-energy figures, and where the city ranks against the rest of the country.