Local time · Seattle
What time is it in Seattle, Washington?
1:48:47AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 780,995
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Seattle
Seattle is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Seattle sits at 47.62°N, 122.35°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Seattle.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Seattle it is highest at 11:53 am today — 7 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.4°W, Seattle sits 9 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Seattle today
- Sunrise
- 7:12 am
- Sunset
- 4:35 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 59 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 23 minutes in Seattle, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 34 minutes, from 15 hours 59 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 25 minutes in December.
At 47.6°N that puts Seattle between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.