East Grand Forks in numbers
- Coordinates
- 47.9300, -97.0245
- Elevation
- 253 m above sea level
- Population
- 8 643
- Region
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1893 km away
What time is it in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, United States
The clock above shows the current local time in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, United States, which uses America/Chicago (−6).
East Grand Forks, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in East Grand Forks
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
East Grand Forks keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:26 AM Solar noon 12:13 PM Sunset 5:00 PM Daylight 9 h 34 min Night 14 h 26 min Civil twilight 6:53 AM – 5:33 PM
Weather in East Grand Forks right now
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East Grand Forks and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 56721
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Minnesota
- Minneapolis 410 939
- Saint Paul 303 176
- Rochester 112 225
- Bloomington 86 435
- Duluth 86 110
- Brooklyn Park 79 149
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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Nearby places
- Grand Forks — 0.8 km
- North Star Mobile Home Park — 1.5 km
- Calspur — 4.8 km
- North Grand Forks — 7.4 km
- Mallory — 10.3 km
- Merrifield — 11.3 km
Local time details for East Grand Forks
The sun rises today at 7:26 AM in East Grand Forks and sets at 5:00 PM. Daylight covers 9 h 34 min.
The clock in nearby Grand Forks and North Star Mobile Home Park follows East Grand Forks.
East Grand Forks carries 1 postal code.
The zone that governs East Grand Forks is America/Chicago at UTC−6. Whether the clocks move seasonally: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is assigned to East Grand Forks?
- East Grand Forks is assigned to the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Does East Grand Forks change its clocks twice a year?
- Daylight saving time in East Grand Forks: No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in East Grand Forks — what are they?
- Sunrise at 7:26 AM, sunset at 5:00 PM.