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The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the U.S. state of Washington.

State government

January 1
- State minimum wage increases to $17.13 per hour,^[1] highest state rate in the nation, only behind District of Columbia. Bellingham, Burien, Everett, King County, Renton, SeaTac, Seattle and Tukwila have higher minimums.^[2]
- State nicotine excise tax increases to 95%^[3]
January 5
- Organizers of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival announce that the 2026 festival will not be negatively affected by record flooding on the Skagit River in 2025, which was earlier feared could harm bulbs. Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Skagit Valley usually attend the festival.^[4]^[5]
- The Washington Attorney General says he is aware of "allegations of [daycare] fraud" in Washington, Ohio, and Minnesota, and says it is a local or federal matter, not under his office's jurisdiction, and cautions against "random vigilante people" visiting providers.^[6]
January 9 – Two snowmobilers are killed in an avalanche in northern Kittitas County.^[7]
January 17 – Multiple shootings in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle kill one person and hospitalize four others.^[8]

February 8 – The Seattle Seahawks win Super Bowl LX, beating the New England Patriots 29–13.^[9]
February 10 – Special elections are held.^[10]^[11]
February 11 – The Seahawks victory parade is held in Seattle.^[12]
February 24 – A man stabs four people to death outside a home on the Key Peninsula near Gig Harbor before being shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy.^[13]^[14]

March 10 – Seattle passes an emergency resolution to ban new ICE immigration detention centers for one year.^[15]
March 12 – One person is killed in Snohomish County and 35,000 households in Western Washington are without power due to a wind and rain storm.^[16]
March 28 – The Sound Transit's 2 Line light rail connection between Eastside and Seattle over Lake Washington, known as the Crosslake Connection, opens for passenger service.^[17]

April 1–30 – Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
April 15 – A rare waterspout associated with the Puget Sound Convergence Zone is spotted in Puget Sound, a few miles west of Magnolia, Seattle.^[18]^[19]
April 28 – Special election^[10]