The Lakes in numbers
- Coordinates
- 44.1383, -95.6653
- Elevation
- 460 m above sea level
- Population
- 667
- Region
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1652 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
The page gives the present local time in The Lakes, Minnesota, United States, whose time zone is America/Chicago (−6).
The Lakes, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in The Lakes
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in The Lakes.
Sunrise 7:02 AM Solar noon 12:07 PM Sunset 5:13 PM Daylight 10 h 11 min Night 13 h 49 min Civil twilight 6:32 AM – 5:43 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.
Sunrise arrives in The Lakes at 7:02 AM today and the sun goes down at 5:13 PM. That gives the day 10 h 11 min of light.
Look nearby and you will see Owanka and Currie on the same clock as The Lakes.
The Lakes operates with 3 postal codes.
Hours in The Lakes are kept by America/Chicago, standing at UTC−6. Daylight saving observed: No.