Prior Lake in numbers
- Coordinates
- 44.7133, -93.4227
- Elevation
- 289 m above sea level
- Population
- 25 282
- Region
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1501 km away
Get the current local time in Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States, a location in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Prior Lake, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Prior Lake
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 11:58 AM Sunset 5:03 PM Daylight 10 h 09 min Night 13 h 51 min Civil twilight 6:23 AM – 5:33 PM
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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.
1 postal code is attached to Prior Lake.
Prior Lake marks time with America/Chicago at an offset of UTC−6. Does the area change clocks seasonally? No.
For Prior Lake today, sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset is 5:03 PM. Daylight lasts 10 h 09 min.
Nearby places that share Prior Lake's clock include Grainwood and Spring Lake.