Watkins in numbers
- Coordinates
- 45.3152, -94.4086
- Elevation
- 353 m above sea level
- Population
- 942
- Region
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1597 km away
- Same name
- 16 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Watkins, Minnesota, United States
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in Watkins, Minnesota, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Watkins, United States
Saturday, 31 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Watkins
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Watkins keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:56 AM Solar noon 1:02 PM Sunset 6:08 PM Daylight 10 h 12 min Night 13 h 48 min Civil twilight 7:26 AM – 6:39 PM
Weather in Watkins right now
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Watkins and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 52354
- 55389
- 80137
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
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Same time zone — America/Chicago
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Nearby places
- Watkins Mobile Home Park — 0.0 km
- Saint Nicholas — 7.6 km
- Kimball — 8.5 km
- Eden Valley — 10.8 km
- Marty — 11.1 km
- Forest City — 12.9 km
Local time details for Watkins
Today's schedule for Watkins: sunrise 7:56 AM, sunset 6:08 PM. That gives 10 h 12 min of daylight.
The same hours are kept in Watkins and in nearby Watkins Mobile Home Park and Saint Nicholas.
3 codes are used to address mail in Watkins.
Watkins stands in America/Chicago, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Under which time zone does Watkins fall?
- Watkins falls under America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Does the local time in Watkins change with daylight saving?
- Yes.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Watkins — what times?
- 7:56 AM and 6:08 PM.