Current time in Seattle

United States · UTC-8/UTC-7

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America/Los_Angeles

UTC offset

UTC-8/UTC-7

Daylight Saving

Yes — observed

Time zone ID

America/Los_Angeles

Business hours

9:00 AM – 5:30 PM PT (Monday–Friday)

About Seattle's time zone

Seattle operates on Pacific Time (PT), using PST (UTC-8) in winter and PDT (UTC-7) during daylight saving. Home to Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, and Starbucks, Seattle is one of the most company-dense cities in the world relative to its size. Seattle's PT time zone is significant for global cloud computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS) US-West operations run on PT, meaning server time in the world's largest cloud platform is anchored to Seattle's clock.

Best time to call Seattle

Calling from	Recommended window
New York	12:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET
London	5:00 PM – 2:00 AM GMT
Tokyo	1:00 AM – 10:00 AM JST
Sydney	3:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEST

Did you know? Seattle's proximity to Alaska creates interesting time zone dynamics: Anchorage is 1 hour behind Seattle (AKST, UTC-9), meaning Amazon employees at Seattle HQ and Amazon's Anchorage distribution centers are only 1 hour apart despite being over 2,000 km away. Alaska's time zone was set in 1983 when the state consolidated from four zones to two to simplify commerce with the Pacific states.

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