Best Time to Meet Between New York and Seattle

Time difference between New York and Seattle

A 3h time gap separates New York (UTC-4) and Seattle (UTC-7). When you pick up your morning coffee in Seattle, your counterpart in New York is already a few hours into their day. Getting a meeting right means understanding exactly where those working days intersect.

With 5h of shared business hours, there's enough room for one focused daily meeting. The discipline is keeping it exactly that: focused. 3h gaps don't forgive meeting sprawl — a 30-minute standup that runs to 45 minutes starts eating into someone's actual work time. Book it, timebox it, end it on schedule.

The less obvious scheduling risk is daylight saving time mismatch. New York and Seattle may not shift their clocks on the same date. A meeting booked as "10 AM NYC" in January might show up as "11 AM NYC" in a colleague's calendar in March if your calendar app doesn't handle DST transitions correctly. Check the DST note on this page before setting up recurring meetings.

Add the rest of your team above and the planner scales to everyone at once. A three-city team spanning New York, Seattle, and a third timezone often has less overlap than any two-city pair in isolation — surfacing that constraint early prevents scheduling that works on paper but burns people out in practice.