Twelve acres,
counted
Every business inside the line the city drew around Pike Place Market, the date each one started trading, and what the separate records of this place disagree about.
— 12.827 acres 153 with a licence 473 on the Market's roster
At this hour
The Market publishes an hour for each part of itself, and the parts keep different hours. Read against the clock in Seattle, where it is —.
- Breakfast7 a.m.
- Fresh Produce & Seafood7 a.m.
- Crafts Market11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Farm Tables9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Artisanal Food Program11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Fri – Sun)
- Merchant buildings9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
- Restrooms8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. (North restroom open until 7 p.m.)
- Restaurants7 a.m. – 2 a.m.; varies
- Secret Garden9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Quoted from the Market's visitor page, read 2026-09-19. It trades seven days a week and closes on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Individual shops set their own hours; this is the Market's own band for each part, not a promise about any one stall.
Are you inside it?
The district is a 30-cornered polygon with an area of 12.827 acres and 1,101 metres of edge. Standing anywhere near Pike Place, a step either way changes the answer.
The device's position is compared in the browser against the boundary file on this page. How the line is drawn.
Five counts of one place
- 153hold a city business licence inside the linethe only dated, address-level record of who trades here
- 473are on the Market's own vendor rosterincluding the daystall craftspeople and farmers, who hold no separate city licence; 202 of them print an address and reach the map
- 170are named in OpenStreetMapa volunteer survey of the same twelve acres, and a third answer
- 215addresses inside the boundaryfrom the city's Master Address File
- 12.827acres, as the city draws the districtthe Market's own page calls itself a 10-level, 9-acre Market — a difference of 3.83 acres
The Market's own figures are quoted from its visitor page, read 2026-09-19. The licence count is what the city's file holds at an address the boundary contains. Each source, with the hour it was read.
How long they stay
Median time inside the line, on the same licence: 24.7 years. In the hundred and fifty metres outside it: 18.7 years.
34 of the 153 businesses inside the boundary have held the same licence for more than forty years. Among the 46 licensed businesses within 150 m of the line and outside it, 2 have.
One stall, in three records
Isellpictures.com
Fodoughgrafiks (Isellpictures.com) has been selling digital art in Pike Place Market since 2007. Owner Daniel T. Fleming shoots, edits, prints coats, trims, mounts, signs, and sells a body of work that celebrates the most iconic scenes and situations from the Greater PNW and beyond.
The Market's own description, quoted as published.
The city licensed FODOUGHGRAFIKS to FLEMING DANIEL T on 10 March 2006 — 20 years ago. The Market's own roster says the business has sold here since 2007. In May 2024 he put it at eighteen years. Three sources, two dates, one stall.
Every door
153 points on one polygonThe map
Julian Lupyan · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons31 places, 14 tradesThe directory
Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons1965 to this yearAge
W.L. Dahl via Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons12.827 acres, 30 cornersThe line
Iiii I I I · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonswhat the codes sayTrades
dschwen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 201520 yearsDaniel Fleming
Kissmykumbaya · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2012every fetch, datedSources
unidentified · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · 1909GeoJSON and JSONThe data
W.L. Dahl (city photographer) via Seattle Municipal Archives · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons







