It is 3:39 pm in America/North_Dakota/Beulah

America/North_Dakota/Beulah is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Beulah in the United States. It is running at UTC-6 right now, abbreviated CST, and the local date is Friday, November 6, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in America/North_Dakota/Beulah right now

3:39 pm on Friday, November 6, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 15:39. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 6 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

25 other zones read UTC-6 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC-6 instead of America/North_Dakota/Beulah throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of America/North_Dakota/Beulah

An offset of UTC-6 names the meridian 90.0 degrees west. Washington, United States actually sits at 77.04 degrees west, which is 13.0 degrees east of it, so the sun there runs about 52 minutes ahead of the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC-6 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC-6 for the winter part of the year and UTC-5 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in America/North_Dakota/Beulah

America/North_Dakota/Beulah does observe daylight saving. The next change is on March 14, 2027: at 1:00 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC-6 becomes UTC-5. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of America/North_Dakota/Beulah has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 3 different offsets: UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5. Its current behaviour has held since 2011. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1970, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use America/North_Dakota/Beulah

One country uses America/North_Dakota/Beulah: the United States, which keeps 29 zones in total and has a population of about 334,910,000.

Inside the United States, one state uses this identifier: North Dakota.

Cities in the America/North_Dakota/Beulah time zone

This site does not yet carry a city page inside America/North_Dakota/Beulah, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at Washington, United States. That costs nothing in accuracy: an offset is a property of the zone, not of a settlement, so the clock above is right for every point inside it. The city index lists the 6,338 places that do have their own page.

The sun against the clock in America/North_Dakota/Beulah

Worked out for Washington, United States, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 38.91 degrees north, 77.04 degrees west. The sun rises at 5:41 am and sets at 4:02 pm, giving 10 hours 21 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 10:52 am, which is 68 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Washington, United States sitting 13.0 degrees east of the UTC-6 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 16.4 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer.

Convert America/North_Dakota/Beulah to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. America/North_Dakota/Beulah is at UTC-6 right now, the same reading as CST, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about America/North_Dakota/Beulah

What time is it in America/North_Dakota/Beulah right now?

3:39 pm on Friday, November 6, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of America/North_Dakota/Beulah?

UTC-6 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC-6 in winter and UTC-5 in summer.

Does America/North_Dakota/Beulah observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is March 14, 2027, when the clocks go forward.

What is the abbreviation for America/North_Dakota/Beulah?

CST at this instant. The letters change with the season, because the standard and summer offsets have separate names.

Which countries use America/North_Dakota/Beulah?

United States.

Why store America/North_Dakota/Beulah instead of UTC-6?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 25 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-6 cannot tell them apart; a record storing America/North_Dakota/Beulah keeps working through every future rule change.

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