✈ SEA → ZRH
SEATTLE → ZURICH IN 10H 48M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Seattle to Zurich
From Sea-Tac (SEA), USA North America → Zurich Airport (ZRH), Switzerland Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Zurich → Seattle
How long is the flight from Seattle to Zurich?
A nonstop flight from Seattle (SEA) to Zurich (ZRH) takes about 10 hours 48 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,244 miles (8,439 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 48m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,244 mi
8,439 km · great-circle
Avg speed
782 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Seattle timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Zurich timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Zurich
Time difference
+9h
9 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~9d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Seattle
Nearest destinations
- Seattle → Vancouver
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Seattle → Las Vegas
- Seattle → Los Angeles
- Seattle → Dallas
- Seattle → Chicago
- Seattle → Toronto
- Seattle → Atlanta
- Seattle → Mexico City
- Seattle → New York
Long-haul from Seattle
- Seattle → Johannesburg
- Seattle → Cape Town
- Seattle → Nairobi
- Seattle → Melbourne
- Seattle → Bali (Denpasar)
- Seattle → Kuala Lumpur
- Seattle → Singapore
- Seattle → Sydney
- Seattle → Mumbai
- Seattle → Abu Dhabi
More flights to Europe
Flights to Zurich
Nearest origins
- Milan → Zurich
- Munich → Zurich
- Frankfurt → Zurich
- Paris → Zurich
- Brussels → Zurich
- Prague → Zurich
- Amsterdam → Zurich
- Vienna → Zurich
- Berlin → Zurich
- Rome → Zurich
Long-haul to Zurich
- Auckland → Zurich
- Sydney → Zurich
- Melbourne → Zurich
- Bali (Denpasar) → Zurich
- Santiago → Zurich
- Buenos Aires → Zurich
- Manila → Zurich
- Singapore → Zurich
- Kuala Lumpur → Zurich
- Mexico City → Zurich