Washington Weather

Right now in Washington
48°F
Clear

Observed at Seattle (the largest city by population in Washington, used as a state-wide proxy). For per-city forecasts, see the city grid below.

Climate at a glance

Washington is largely one climate zone across 633 cities and towns. Predominantly warm-summer Mediterranean.

The state spans roughly 3.4° of latitude (45.6° N to 49.0° N), from Washougal in the south to Laurier in the north. Seattle is the largest city by population.

Microseason · September 21–25 · Predominantly Pacific Northwest

Fog locks the valleys

Coastal marine layer and inland valley fog marry; the region enters weeks of persistent gray. Mist hangs through full days.

Read this microseason across nine climate regions → · See all 72 microseasons

Microseason content for Washington is drawn from the Pacific Northwest corpus (75% of the state's cities sit in this region).

Live wind & temperature across Washington

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Cities in Washington

13 cities with a weather forecast page, largest first

CityJuly normalPopulation
Seattle67°F3,642,006
Spokane74°F462,286
Kennewick77°F259,487
Bremerton66°F224,760
Tacoma68°F222,758
Olympia64°F217,647
Vancouver69°F195,300
Marysville65°F166,250
Bellevue67°F151,847
Yakima72°F136,518
Kent67°F135,603
Bellingham64°F135,591
Marine View73°F471

Our dataset lists 633 places in Washington; the 13 above have a page. For a smaller town, the nearest city above is the closest match.

The July figure is that city’s 1991–2020 normal mean temperature, rounded to the nearest degree — NOAA NCEI station normals from the nearest station where one covers the city, otherwise modelled normals (EC_Earth3P_HR via Open-Meteo); each city page names which. Populations come from SimpleMaps US Cities (CC BY 4.0). See methodology for data sources and editorial rules. Maintainer: Brian Tighe.