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title: "Flights to Seattle: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Seattle, United States, from 6 cities — 1,537 km at the nearest, 8,373 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/seattle
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United States · North America

# 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.

| From                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated | Direction                        |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-sea) | LAX | 1,537 km | 2h 25m    | barely any time shift            |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-sea)    | JFK | 3,887 km | 5h 20m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Honolulu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnl)    | HNL | 4,308 km | 5h 51m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-sea)      | LHR | 7,702 km | 10h 04m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnd)       | HND | 7,711 km | 10h 05m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-icn)       | ICN | 8,373 km | 10h 54m   | eastbound — 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.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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