Current Time in Minneapolis
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Country
United States
Region
North America
IANA Timezone
America/Chicago
UTC Offset
UTC-05:00
Abbreviation
CDT
Daylight Saving
Yes — clocks shift seasonally
Time Zone & Business Hours — Minneapolis
Minneapolis keeps Central Time — CST (UTC−6) in winter and CDT (UTC−5) in summer. The Twin Cities host a remarkable concentration of Fortune 500 companies per capita — Target, UnitedHealth, and Best Buy among them — making Central Time a key reference for US retail and healthcare scheduling.
Minneapolis sits further north than any other major US city in the Central timezone, which makes the daylight saving shift especially pronounced: summer evenings stay light past 9 pm CDT, while winter nights close in before 5 pm CST — a swing that affects retail trading hours, warehouse shifts, and outdoor work schedules across the region.