December 2025 – Seattle named #3 for in WalletHub’s Best Cities for Christmas – WalletHub
November 2025 – Seattle named one of Travel + Leisure’s 50 Best Places to Travel in 2026 – Travel + Leisure
October 2025 – Seattle named #10 in Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards: Best Cities in the United States – Condé Nast Traveler
July 2025 – Most Walkable City in the U.S. – Fitflop
June 2025 – Best Airport Hotel – DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport – Smart Meetings
June 2025 – Best City Hotel – Hyatt Regency Seattle – Smart Meetings
May 2025 – Visit Seattle’s Love For All Boat campaign – finalist in the Special Event category – 2025 Sabre North America Awards
May 2025 – Seattle’s park system named eighth best in the U.S. – Trust Public Land
April 2025 – Seattle named #19 in the World’s Best Cities Report – World’s Best Cities
February 2025 – Seattle listed as one of the top places to see cherry blossoms in the U.S. – AFAR
February 2025 – Visit Seattle’s Love For All Boat campaign – Gold in the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International’s Integrated Marketing, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Marketing category – HSMAI Adrian Awards
February 2025 – Seattle named #6 in the Top 10 Smart Cities Across the US – CoworkingCafe
January 2025 – Seattle ranked in the top 30 of Heartland Forward’s 2024 Most Dynamic Metropolitans – Heartland Forward