Moving from Los Angeles to Seattle: 2026 Cost & Time

LA to Seattle runs the length of the I-5 West Coast corridor. Two-way tech-relocation volume keeps carriers full both directions, so off-peak (October–April) discounts here tend to beat the national average.

Cost by home size

What affects your Los Angeles → Seattle cost

• Over long distances like Los Angeles to Seattle (1,135 mi), the per-mile rate steps down, and inventory size becomes the dominant cost driver.
• A mid-month, mid-week date typically beats an end-of-month weekend on this lane, especially in the May–September peak.
• Your exact inventory is what shifts a range into a firm quote, which is why we show a range and the mover confirms it after a walkthrough.

Where the money goes on this move

Two costs make up this move, and they behave differently. Handling scales with your inventory. Transport scales with the 1,135 miles, but not in a straight line. Here is how they divide. For a 2-bedroom household, transport is about 71% of the pre-adjustment total here, and 67% at five bedrooms.

Transport is not a flat rate per mile. Mileage is priced in bands that step down as the haul lengthens, because the fixed cost of loading amortises over the distance. Across the full 1,135 miles that averages about $2.16 a mile for a 2-bedroom load. This route's final mile falls in the 500–1,500 mi band.

Crew rates at each end of this move

The carrier bills this move on weight and distance, but the people carrying your sofa are hired in two different labor markets, and those markets do not cost the same. These are the local rates we publish for Los Angeles and Seattle.

Los Angeles is the more expensive labor market of the two, at $216 an hour for a 3-mover crew against $208 in Seattle — a $8 an hour gap that would matter a great deal if this were a local move at that end, and matters much less on a tariff-priced interstate job.

The hourly rate tells you the price of an hour. What decides how many hours is the housing at each end. Los Angeles: Hillside addresses in Silver Lake, Echo Park, and the canyons come with long stair carries and streets no full-size truck can turn on, which routinely forces a shuttle. Westside and downtown towers add COI paperwork and reserved elevators.

Seattle: Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, and Fremont combine steep grades, narrow streets, and older walk-ups with no elevator, and the city requires a permit to reserve curb space for a moving truck across most of the dense neighborhoods.

What changes this number

Below is what each optional decision costs on this specific corridor. Percentages hide the size of these; dollars do not.

Peak season and an end-of-month date compound, so a late-July pickup carries both and lands roughly $799 over the off-peak baseline. It is the largest figure on this page you can change for free.

How this lane prices against its neighbours

If the destination is still open, the comparison worth seeing is cost, not distance. Every figure below is the same 2-bedroom benchmark computed the same way as the range at the top of this page.

Estimates, not quotes: every figure is computed from one published model at $62 per mover per hour plus tiered mileage, and none is attributed to a named company. See the method.