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205 Best Seattle Instagram Captions (Short, Puns + Quotes)

Looking for the best Seattle Instagram captions for your travel photos?

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Seattle is one of my favorite cities in the United States.

I can’t get enough of its natural beauty, fresh food, and vibrant coffee culture!

This beautiful Pacific Northwest city is also home to some of the most stunning views and iconic landmarks in the world.

From the Space Needle to Pike Place Market, Seattle provides an abundance of unique and Instagrammable locations for your photo ops.

Whether you’re celebrating the beauty of Emerald City or capturing the energy of its thriving music and art scenes, these captions will help you share your Seattle experience.

On this post, I’ve put together all of the best Seattle quotes, sayings, and puns for your next photo dump.

Ready to make a statement?

Let’s dive in.

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Short Seattle Instagram Captions

· Sleepless in Seattle.

· Exploring the Emerald City.

· Coffee and Seattle my two favorite things.

· Home is where the heart is. And mine is in Seattle.

· Nirvana and cold brew.

· Seattle is always a good idea.

· Now I see why they call it the Emerald City.

· You bring the sunshine to Seattle.

· Seattle is always in my mind.

· Seattle always sounds like a great idea.

· Any day spent in Seattle is great day.

· Seattle isn’t just a place, it’s a way of life.

· Can’t rain on my parade.

· You can find my heart where I left it: in Seattle.

· In Seattle, anytime is coffee time.

· It’s always sweater weather in Seattle.

· I love you like the rain loves Seattle.

· Hello, Seattle.

· See you in Seattle.

· Seattle way of life.

· Find me in Seattle.

· Catch me in Seattle.

· Meet me in Seattle.

· Seattle state of mind.

· Let’s get lost in Seattle.

· You had me at Seattle.

· I left my heart in Seattle.

· Good morning Seattle.

· Home is where Seattle is.

· Life is better in Seattle.

· Got coffee?

· Postcard from Seattle.

· Seattle Girl.

· It’s a Seattle thing, you wouldn’t understand.

· Seattle is the place to be.

· Dear Seattle, I will never get over you.

· I’d rather be in Seattle.

· Today’s good mood is brought to you by Seattle and coffee.

· Keep calm and love Seattle.

· Seattle is my happy place.

· Living that Seattle life.

Catchy Seattle Instagram Captions

· If you need me, I’ll be in Seattle.

· Gone to Seattle, be back never.

· From Seattle, with love.

· You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket to Seattle which is pretty much the same thing.

· Nice to meet you, Seattle.

· Seattle is calling, and I must go.

· I love you, Seattle.

· Today’s mood: Seattle.

· Proud Seattleite.

· Found my happiness in Seattle.

· Once upon a time in Seattle…

· Seattle vibes.

· Just another day in Seattle.

· Meet me at Pike’s Place.

· Lost in Seattle.

· Seattle dreaming.

· A perfect moody day in Seattle.

· Sleepless nights and city lights.

· There’s no place like Seattle.

· I fell in love. Her name is Seattle.

· Either you love Seattle, or you are wrong.

· Seattle, I’m yours.

· Greetings from Seattle.

· Pike’s Place is my happy place.

· Made in Seattle.

· Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to Seattle.

· Bring on the rain and coffee.

· Follow me to Seattle.

Related: 10 Best Things To Do In Seattle

Funny Seattle Instagram Captions

· Starbucks is my therapy.

· It rains nine months a year in Seattle.

· Got over my fear of needles by visiting Seattle.

· In Seattle, it’s a good thing when it rains on our parades.

· You’re not awake in Seattle if you hadn’t had your coffee.

· Knock, knock. Who’s there? Seattle Washing. Seattle Washing who? Seattle, Washington.

· Rain. Coffee. Repeat.

· The Pacific Northwest is for the coffee junkies.

· It rains nine months a year in Seattle.

· This is Seattle. Where is my coffee?

· Seattle has one season: rain.

· Living in Seattle is like being in love with a beautiful woman who’s sick all the time.

· I don’t care if the glass is half full or half empty. I just want to know: is there coffee in it?

Space Needle Instagram Captions

· The view from the top.

· If you needle me, I’ll be right here.

· Nothing can stop me, I’m all the way up.

· I don’t needle this attitude right now.

· Just give me some space.

Pacific Northwest Instagram Captions

· PNW vibes.

· Adventure awaits.

· All good things are wild and free.

· Never too old to play outside.

· Always take the scenic route.

· Take a hike.

· Think outside, no box required.

· Just a girl that loves the PNW.

· Catch me outside, how ’bout dat?

· I’m not lost, I’m exploring.

· Over the river and through the woods.

· Life is better on adventures.

· Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.

· Move the body, still the mind.

· Sky above, earth below, peace within.

· Relationship status: in love with the Pacific Northwest.

· Never stop exploring.

· Current aesthetic: PNW.

· Go wild for a while.

· The stars are better company.

Washington State Captions For Instagram

· Let’s get lost in Washington.

· Twilight vibes.

· Washington blew me away.

· Endless adventures in Washington State.

· Playing in puddles.

· Current aesthetic: Washington.

· Just a little drizzle.

· Rain, rain, don’t go away.

Related: 21 Best Things To Do In Washington State

Waterfall Captions For Instagram

· Just go with the flow.

· Good to the last drop.

· Sorry TLC, I chased the waterfall.

· A waterfall a day keeps the worries away.

· Sometimes, all you need is a change of scenery.

Related: 29 Best Waterfalls Near Seattle

Clever Seattle Puns For Instagram Captions

· Spacing out in Seattle.

· You always said Seattle was beautiful, now I Bellevue.

· Needle-less to say, I love Seattle.

· Seattle, I chews you.

· I can’t stop talking a-boat Seattle!

· It’s time to Se-attle.

· I Wheel-y love Seattle.

· (Coffee) mugs and kisses, from Seattle.

· Don’t Seattle for anything less than perfect.

· Seattle is one Amazon city.

· Getting coffee in Seattle is just part of the daily grind.

· Seattle, won’t chew be mine?

· Sleeve-less in Seattle.

· “I really, Chihuly love Seattle.”

· It’s always Rainier over Seattle.

· Seattle is more than it ap-piers.

· Seattle is cool beans.

· Something’s fishy here at Pike Place.

· It’s all just fun and gum.

· Seattle’s coffee scene is a thing of brew-ty.

· When it’s raining cats and dogs, and you step in a poodle.

· I really Pike Seattle.

· Dad, I’m going to Seattle. Dad: Who’s Attle?

· Dear Seattle, words cannot espresso how much you bean to me.

· I Kerry bout you so much!

· You must be trolling me.

· I love Seattle a latte.

· May the forest be with you.

· Seattle, you’re brew-tiful.

· Avoid pier pressure, just go to Seattle.

· My love for Seattle is evergreen.

· Since moving to Seattle, I’ve started to like the rain. I think I’ve been rain-washed.

Short Seattle Quotes For Instagram Captions

· “It’s hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer’s day.” – Robert Spector

· “The bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle.” – Perry Como

· “I love Seattle. I couldn’t be anywhere else.” – Lauren Jackson

· “Seattle is a liberal city.”- Jonathan Raban

· “Seattle is this curious liberal island.” – Jonathan Raban

· “I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle.” – Magic Johnson

· “And Seattle isn’t really crazy anymore. It’s a big dot-com city.” – Krist Novoselic

· “Seattle was a rabid film town in the 70s and 80s because it rained so much.” – John Requa

· “All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.” – Dave Grohl

· “Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle – I’m not sure.” – Maria Semple

· “We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn’t have to struggle first.” – Regina Scott

· “Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”- Chief Seattle

· “Summer in Seattle allows me to indulge in some of the region’s top culinary delights.” – Tom Douglas

Seattle Song Lyrics For Instagram Captions

· “Hello Seattle, I am a cold seahorse
Feeling warm in your sand
I sing about the tide and the ocean surf
Rolling in the evening breeze.” – Owl City, “Hello Seattle”

· “September in Seattle
Waiting on a train
I smoked my last cigarette
Standing in out of the rain.” – Shawn Mullins, “September in Seattle”

· “Summer in Seattle.” – Laurie Lewis Quintet, “Summer in Seattle”

· “Welcome to Seattle.” – Boom Bap Project, “Welcome to Seattle”

· “Like a summer night in Seattle
When you kiss me under the moonlight.
Let the raindrops fall all around us,
As I sail in the wake of your love.” – Jenna Drey, “Summer Night in Seattle”

· “In her false witness
Hope you’re still with us
To see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient.” – Nirvana, “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle”

· “See them running heading
Homeward to Seattle
Deem
All the liars in your tribe.” – Marcy Playground, “The Shadow of Seattle”

· “The bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle
And the hills the greenest green in Seattle
Like a beautiful child growing up free and wild
Full of hopes and full of fears
Full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams to last the years in Seattle” – Perry Como, “Seattle”

Funny Seattle Quotes

· “In Seattle, you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.” – Jeff Bezos

· “Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.” – Mark Driscoll

· “Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They’re everywhere and even if they don’t get in your way, you can’t help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.” – Maria Semple

· “Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.” – Hamilton Leithauser

· “I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It’s gratifying, but it’s almost like doing radio. It’s ephemeral.” – Dan Savage

More Funny Seattle Quotes

· “Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness.” – Johnathan Raban

· “Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks.” – Maria Semple

· “Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won’t waste their time being friendly. But they are civil.” – Jonathan Raban

· “Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.” – Kimberly Kinrade

· “It’s like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. ‘You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won’t matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.” – Maria Semple

· “She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.”- Susan Mallery

· “You know you’re from Seattle when even amid perhaps the worst crisis you’ve ever faced, you can still appreciate a sunny day.” – Melanie A. Smith

Meaningful Seattle Quotes

· “To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.” – Tom Robbins

· “At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn’t look like a city at all. The trees outnumber the houses. And that’s completely typical of Seattle. You can’t quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?” – Jonathan Raban

· “The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us. Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky. Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggle cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold, pink, flesh, utterly cheesy in their luminosity.” – Maria Semple

· “In Seattle, we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.” – Garth Stein

· “I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for… in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they’ve done for me.” – Kevin Durant

Inspirational Seattle Quotes For Instagram Captions

· “Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it’s one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there’s the Puget Sound, which will hurt you, if you fall into it, but it’s also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. Within the same city, there’s darkness and light.” – Veena Sud

· “Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.” – Tom Robbins

· “All those ninnies have it wrong. The best thing about Seattle is the weather. The world over, people have ocean views. But across our ocean is Bainbridge Island, an evergreen curb, and over it the exploding, craggy, snow Olympics. I guess what I’m saying: I miss it, the mountains and the water.” – Maria Semple

· “On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.” – Tom Robbins

· “He was actually quite fond of Seattle’s weather, and not merely because of its ambivalence. He liked its subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.” – Tom Robbins

Interesting Seattle Quotes

· “Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people they’re all here.” – Quincy Jones

· “My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It’s a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.” – Ron Reagan

· “Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.” – Jonathan Raban

· “And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.” – Stephen Briggs

· “I think it’s evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning, and economics.” – Stone Gossard

· “Simply as a writer of books, I’m thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.” – Jonathan Raban

· “Seattle has been chosen America’s best in many categories-including the best bicycling city, the most livable, best city to locate a business, best hotels, and the best place to visit.” – Ray Chatelin

Quirky Seattle Quotes For Instagram Captions

· “I’ve been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods… forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.” – Gary Locke

· “In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations, ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies, were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.” – Tom Robbins

· “When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70’s, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn’t the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.” – Rainn Wilson

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