| 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 |
List of counties in South Dakota in the Mountain Time Zone |
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| County | County Seat |
| Bennett County | Martin |
| Butte County | Belle Fourche |
| Corson County | McIntosh |
| Custer County | Custer |
| Dewey County | Timber Lake |
| Fall River County | Hot Springs |
| Haakon County | Philip |
| Harding County | Buffalo |
| Jackson County | Kadoka |
| Lawrence County | Deadwood |
| Meade County | Sturgis |
| *Oglala Lakota County | Pine Ridge* |
| Pennington County | Rapid City |
| Perkins County | Bison |
| Ziebach County | Dupree |
| *Oglala Lakota County does not have their own county seat, Hot Springs in Fall River County serves as the administrative center. | |
There is a county in South Dakota with a portion in the mountain time zone |
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| County | Localities |
| Stanley County | City of Fort Pierre |
| Hayes | |
| Wendte | |
| There are 66 counties in South Dakota, of which 16 (shown in green on the left of the map) use Mountain Time Zone, the other 50 counties (shown in brown on the map) use Central Time Zone. Stanley County uses both the Mountain and Central time zones. | |
| 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... | |