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Seattle from Seoul

8,322 km, about 11h 04m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Seattle and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.

  1. Seattle in January: avoid
  2. Seattle in February: avoid
  3. Seattle in March: ok
  4. Seattle in April: ok
  5. Seattle in May: good, busy
  6. Seattle in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Seattle in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Seattle in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Seattle in September: ok, busy
  10. Seattle in October: ok
  11. Seattle in November: avoid
  12. Seattle in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Jun–Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 25C max, 2 rainy days. May is the next best.

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Month by month from Seoul

No fare history on ICN–SEA yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only. The price column fills in as the scanner collects.

MonthMax °CRain days Crowds VerdictWhy
Jan 8° 16d 80 avoid monsoon: 16 rainy days, 188mm
Feb 7° 13d 80 avoid 7C max, 13 rainy days
Mar 11° 14d 100 ok 11C max, 14 rainy days
Apr 14° 12d 100 ok 14C max, 12 rainy days
May 18° 9d 62 goodbusy busier than usual
Jun 21° 7d 65 sweet spot busy busier than usual
Jul 25° 2d 65 sweet spot busy busier than usual
Aug 25° 4d 65 sweet spot busy busier than usual
Sep 21° 8d 55 okbusy busier than usual
Oct 15° 11d 80 ok 15C max, 11 rainy days
Nov 10° 16d 80 avoid monsoon: 16 rainy days, 189mm
Dec 8° 17d 80 avoid monsoon: 17 rainy days, 213mm

Rain days are the days with at least 2 mm of rain.

Crowds is a score out of 100 where higher is quieter. It counts public-holiday clusters in KR as well as at Seattle, which is why this table differs from the same one read from another country. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. Crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from June to August; quietest from November to February.

Getting there

SeoulSeattle8,322 km
Nonstop flight 4 airlines

Nonstop routes from Wikipedia's airport articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), roads from OpenRouteService, ferries from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Times are typical, not a schedule, and none of this is a fare — the searches below are where prices live.

Seattle from anywhere · everywhere from Seoul

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