Live Rahu Kaal for Seattle — calculated from today's actual sunrise at 47.606200°N, -122.332100°E.
Precise for Seattle. Not a generic IST lookup.
Most Vedic apps show the same Rahu Kaal for all of India — calculated from a generic IST formula. But Rahu Kaal is 1/8th of the actual daytime from today's sunrise at your location. Pacific Standard Time (PST, UTC-8) in winter, Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC-7) in summer CosmosPandit uses precision astronomy (Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms) to calculate the exact sunrise at Seattle's coordinates (47.606200°N, -122.332100°E), giving you the correct Rahu Kaal every day.
Seattle and its metro — Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, and Bothell — is home to approximately 120,000 Indians, driven overwhelmingly by the technology industry. Amazon (headquartered in Seattle) and Microsoft (headquartered in Redmond) together employ tens of thousands of Indian-origin engineers, product managers, and executives, making the Seattle metro one of the most Indian-concentrated tech markets in the United States alongside the Bay Area. Punjabi Sikh families — many running the famous Redmond-area gurdwaras — have deep roots in the Pacific Northwest stretching back to the early 20th century.
Seattle uses Pacific Time — PST (UTC-8) in winter and PDT (UTC-7) in summer — the same zone as San Francisco and Los Angeles, but at a much higher latitude (47.6°N). This creates Seattle's biggest distinctive feature: a dramatic 165-minute sunrise variation, from 5:12 AM in June to 7:56 AM in December. This means Rahu Kaal in Seattle can shift by nearly 3 hours between summer and winter — the largest seasonal variation in our North American city network. IST offset is 13.5 hours in winter and 12.5 hours in summer. CosmosPandit calculates from Seattle's exact coordinates (47.6062°N, 122.3321°W).
The Seattle Indian community is a mix of South Indian tech professionals (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada), Punjabi Sikh families, Gujarati and Hindi-speaking professionals, and a growing Bengali and Marathi community. All 8 Indian languages are supported with Seattle-precise timings.
Seattle's high latitude (47.6°N) causes the largest sunrise variation in our North American network — about 165 minutes between the June solstice (~5:12 AM PDT) and December solstice (~7:56 AM PST). This means Rahu Kaal shifts by nearly 3 hours across the year. An IST-converted Rahu Kaal is not only 13.5 hours off in timezone but also uses the wrong sunrise for Seattle's latitude.
Seattle's Indian professionals — in software engineering, product management, cloud computing, and retail (Amazon) — use Vedic timing for career milestones, startup launches, home purchases in the competitive Seattle market, and family ceremonies. Punjabi Sikh families observe traditional timing for religious ceremonies and gurdwara events. CosmosPandit provides Seattle-precise Rahu Kaal and Muhurat in all 8 Indian languages.
India uses a single timezone (IST, UTC+5:30) across 30° of longitude. But sunrise follows the sun, not the clock — every 1° of longitude – 4 minutes difference. Kolkata’s sunrise is 80 minutes earlier than Mumbai’s on the same IST day, so Rahu Kaal falls at genuinely different times in each city.
This Rahu Kaal page is just the start. The CosmosPandit app gives every Indian the full Vedic astrology toolkit — in their own language, with timings precise for their city:
Yes. Seattle uses Pacific Time — PST (UTC-8) in winter and PDT (UTC-7) in summer — the same timezone as San Francisco and Los Angeles. The switch happens on the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November. CosmosPandit uses America/Los_Angeles, which handles Seattle's DST automatically.
Seattle's latitude of 47.6°N is the highest of any city in our North American network. Higher latitudes experience more extreme day-length variation — in June, Seattle has over 16 hours of daylight (sunrise 5:12 AM, sunset 9:11 PM PDT), while in December it has under 9 hours (sunrise 7:56 AM, sunset 4:18 PM PST). This shifts Rahu Kaal by nearly 3 hours between seasons. CosmosPandit recalculates fresh from the actual sunrise every day.
Yes, significantly — by 30–65 minutes depending on the season. Both cities are in the Pacific timezone, but Seattle (47.6°N) is 10 degrees further north than SF (37.8°N). In June, Seattle's sunrise is earlier than SF's (higher latitude in summer). In December, Seattle's sunrise is much later than SF's (higher latitude in winter). Use this dedicated Seattle page for precise Pacific Northwest timings.
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