| South Dakota Mountain Standard Time Zone -7 | South Dakota Central Standard Time Zone -6 | 
|  List of South Dakota  counties with county seats South Dakota,Current Local Time and Time Zones  | 
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| Mountain  Time  Rapid City | Spearfish  | 
      Central  Time Pierre  | 
      
| MST: Standard -7 MDT: Daylight -6  | 
        CST: Standard -6 CDT: Daylight -5  | 
      
| South Dakota, US daylight saving time 2025 | |
| Starts + 1h  | 
        Ends - 1h  | 
        
| March-9 Sun. 2:00 → 3:00  | 
      Nov.-2 Sun. 2:00 → 1:00  | 
    
| 2nd Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m., South Dakota, US turns the clock forward 1 hour | 1st Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m., South Dakota, US turns the clock back 1 hour | 
| A little more than half of South Dakota is in the Central Time Zone: Pierre, Sioux Falls... and almost half of South Dakota is in the Mountain time zone. | |
| Sout Dakota Mountain Time Zone: Rapid City, Spearfish... | |