Current time in Seattle, United States
The current local time in Seattle is shown below. Seattle observes PST in winter and PDT during daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time
Sunrise & sunset today
Timezone facts
Seattle in context
Seattle sits on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington in western Washington state, surrounded by water on multiple sides and overlooked by the Olympic Mountains to the west and the Cascade Range (including the prominent volcanic peak of Mount Rainier) to the east. The city proper holds around 750,000 residents, with the wider Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area at 4.1 million. The terrain is unusually hilly for a major US city, with several steep grades within walking distance of downtown.
Timezone history of Seattle
Seattle uses Pacific Time alongside the rest of Washington state, sharing the offset with Vancouver across the Canadian border to the north, with which the city has unusually close commuter and business integration. The US-Canada border at Blaine, around 175 kilometres north of Seattle, produces no timezone change. Federal DST rules apply uniformly across the Pacific Northwest.
Working hours in Seattle
Seattle's working culture is dominated by the technology sector, with Microsoft headquartered in nearby Redmond and Amazon occupying around a quarter of all prime office space in downtown Seattle. Tech offices keep flexible hours that often run 10:00 to 18:30 or later, with hybrid arrangements remaining widespread post-pandemic. The city's substantial coffee culture (Starbucks is headquartered here) supports unusually long morning meeting cultures around 09:00 to 11:00.