Carpenter in numbers
- Coordinates
- 44.6375, -97.9168
- Elevation
- 443 m above sea level
- Region
- South Dakota
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1839 km away
- Same name
- 19 more places in the world share this name
Right now in Carpenter, South Dakota, United States the local time is the one shown here, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Carpenter, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Carpenter
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Carpenter.
Sunrise 7:20 AM Solar noon 12:17 PM Sunset 5:13 PM Daylight 9 h 53 min Night 14 h 07 min Civil twilight 6:49 AM – 5:44 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.
Records show 3 postal codes for Carpenter.
Carpenter is served by the America/Chicago time zone, offset UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sun-up in Carpenter is 7:20 AM today and sun-down is 5:13 PM. That gap holds 9 h 53 min of daylight.
For Shamrock Colony and Pitrodie (historical) near Carpenter, the clock reads the same.