Ideal weather days in Seattle
The best time to visit Seattle for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 24 to 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Seattle's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June, July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Seattle, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold199
- Too wet114
- Too windy22
- Too hot4
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Seattle averaged 142 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July (up to 16 a month, 44 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, June and September (up to 12 a month, 72 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 199 a year, mostly in November to April. Another 114 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in November to April. A day can fail more than one test.
Seattle weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 °C 47 °F | 15 | 1 | 4 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 12 °C 53 °F | 17 | 4 | 3 | 3 of 31 |
| April | 15 °C 59 °F | 12 | 1 | 5 | 9 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 68 °F | 7 | 1 | 6 | 21 of 31 |
| June | 23 °C 73 °F | 4 | 1 | 7 | 24 of 30 |
| July | 29 °C 83 °F | 1 | 0 | 14 | 28 of 31 |
| August | 26 °C 79 °F | 5 | 0 | 12 | 25 of 31 |
| September | 22 °C 71 °F | 10 | 0 | 5 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 18 °C 64 °F | 13 | 1 | 4 | 12 of 31 |
| November | 12 °C 53 °F | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 11 °C 51 °F | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 133 | 22 | 65 | 142 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 140 warm, dry days
- 2024 140 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Seattle for good weather?
The best time to visit Seattle for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 24 to 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July (up to 16 a month, 44 a year). Counted from measured days at Seattle Tacoma Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Seattle?
On average 133 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (18 rain days), the driest July (1).
How many sunny days does Seattle get a year?
About 65 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (14).
How warm does Seattle get?
The median daily high ranged from 9 °C (47 °F) in January to 29 °C (83 °F) in July.
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Where is the best climate in the United States?
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Source: Seattle Tacoma Airport weather station (72793024233), 18 km from the centre of Seattle, 113 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.