Home › United States › Washington › Seattle

Seattle weather

Washington · 780,995 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 10:00

Drizzle
6°
Drizzle
Feels like 5°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
13 km/h
Humidity
87 %
Pressure
1016 hPa
Clouds
94 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:49 Set 17:56 Day 10 h 7 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Morning
Rain showers
Rain showers
9°7°
Feels like 9°
Wind ↑ SE 3 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 1.2 mm
Afternoon
Overcast
Overcast
12°10°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ WSW 7 km/h
Humidity 52 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
10°7°
Feels like 10°
Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h
Humidity 68 %
11:00
Rain showers
9°
0.6mm
SE 3
14:00
Overcast
12°
WSW 7

Seattle forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
1°5°9°12°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed14°6°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 6° · normal 10.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 10° · min 5° · normal 10.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 12° · min 4° · normal 9.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 11° · min 5° · normal 9.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 11° · min 3° · normal 9.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 14° · min 5° · normal 9.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 14° · min 6° · normal 9.4°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu2°9°15°14°3°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Seattle climate: what a normal year looks like

From 15 h 59 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 25 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 4 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,350 mm of rain — more than 70% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Even the coldest month, December, keeps nights above freezing on average (4 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan7 °C4 °C177 mm
Feb9 °C4 °C122 mm
Mar11 °C5 °C140 mm
Apr13 °C7 °C115 mm
May17 °C10 °C80 mm
Jun20 °C12 °C67 mm
Jul23 °C14 °C33 mm
Aug24 °C14 °C38 mm
Sep20 °C12 °C69 mm
Oct15 °C8 °C137 mm
Nov10 °C6 °C194 mm
Dec7 °C4 °C182 mm
Whole year15 °C8 °C1,350 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 47.61° N, 122.33° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Seattle: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM105µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Seattle

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Seattle, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Seattle

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 21:60 Set 14:38
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Los_Angeles); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Seattle

Curious about the weather in Seattle on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Seattle weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Seattle, Washington: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 6 °C (feels like 5 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 6 °C to 12 °C and around 2 mm of rain. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Seattle weather data for developers

Use the Seattle forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.

Create a free key

Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations