Seattle Happy Hour

The most-listed happy hour street in Seattle is not downtown. It is California Avenue SW in West Seattle, with 28 listed windows, ahead of First Avenue and East Pike Street. Beveridge Place Pub sits near the south end of it with $5 pints from 3 to 11 Monday through Thursday, an eight-hour block and one of the longest single windows anywhere in this data. The NOOK, further north on the same avenue, lists $10 cocktail and wine deals from 3 to 6 on weekdays.

Ballard Avenue NW is the other cluster worth walking end to end. Barnacle lists $3 oysters and Gracia lists 25% off agave pours, both inside a tight late-afternoon hour. Downtown and Pioneer Square deal in percentages instead of dollar prices: Dead Line on First Avenue South lists 20% off its entire menu from 4 to 6, and Some Random Bar in Belltown lists 20.6% off all food, a figure nobody has bothered to round.

Seattle also keeps its weekends open. Close to one listing in five includes a Saturday or Sunday, roughly double the rate in Chicago or Las Vegas. Late windows exist as well, and Life On Mars on East Pike Street lists $8 beer-and-shot with $10 cocktails on weekday afternoons and again from 11 PM to 2 AM on Friday and Saturday. Wells and drafts at $5 is still the city's single most common listing, so the places above are the ones breaking from the default.