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Flights to Seattle: how far it is, and from where

Seattle sits at 47.4°N, 122.3°W, served by Seattle–Tacoma (SEA). Below are 6 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here
6
in the catalogue
Nearest
1,537 km
from Los Angeles
Furthest
8,373 km
from Seoul
Airports
1
SEA

How far Seattle is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
Los AngelesLAX1,537 km2h 25mbarely any time shift
New YorkJFK3,887 km5h 20mwestbound — the easier direction
HonoluluHNL4,308 km5h 51meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR7,702 km10h 04mwestbound — the easier direction
TokyoHND7,711 km10h 05meastbound — the harder direction
SeoulICN8,373 km10h 54meastbound — the harder direction

What Seattle adds to a map

Seattle puts a pin in United States, and North America is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Seoul, is 8,373 km: 20.9% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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