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9–17 in Seattle vs UTC
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- Father's Day21 Jun 2026
- Independence Day (substitute day)3 Jul 2026
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About Seattle
Home to roughly 753,675 residents, Seattle is a mid-sized urban centre in United States. Its terrain rests around 56 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Seattle is anchored to the America/Los_Angeles time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
United States's currency is USD and its calling prefix is +1. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Seattle
The current local time in Seattle, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Seattle uses the IANA time zone America/Los_Angeles, currently UTC−7.
Whether Seattle observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Los_Angeles) is the source of truth.
Seattle is currently 3 hours behind New York.
Seattle is currently 8 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Seattle are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (47.6062, -122.3321).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Seattle sits at 47.6062° N, 122.3321° W, 56 m above sea level, in United States.