Bellingham, WA Hotels

Near Bellingham

Ferndale WA Hotels - 6 mi / 10 km
Blaine WA Hotels - 15 mi / 25 km
Anacortes WA Hotels - 23 mi / 36 km
Burlington WA Hotels - 23 mi / 37 km
Mount Vernon WA Hotels - 25 mi / 40 km
Friday Harbor WA Hotels - 30 mi / 48 km
Oak Harbor WA Hotels - 34 mi / 54 km
Concrete WA Hotels - 37 mi / 59 km
Arlington WA Hotels - 46 mi / 74 km
Port Townsend WA Hotels - 48 mi / 78 km
Tulalip WA Hotels - 50 mi / 80 km
Marysville WA Hotels - 52 mi / 83 km
Port Hadlock WA Hotels - 54 mi / 86 km
Sequim WA Hotels - 56 mi / 90 km
Everett WA Hotels - 57 mi / 92 km
Mukilteo WA Hotels - 58 mi / 94 km
Port Ludlow WA Hotels - 60 mi / 97 km
Port Angeles WA Hotels - 63 mi / 101 km
Lynnwood WA Hotels - 67 mi / 108 km
Monroe WA Hotels - 68 mi / 109 km

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This is the current conditions weather report for Bellingham. The report was made 61 minutes ago, at 07:53 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 10 miles per hour / 16.7 kilometers per hour from the south (170°). The temperature was 52°F / 11°C, with a dew-point at 52°F / 11°C. The temperature felt like 48°F / 9°C. The atmospheric pressure was 30.09 inHg / 1020 hPa. The relative humidity was 62%. The skies were mostly cloudy.

Bellingham, Washington is the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is situated on Bellingham Bay, which is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia. It lies west of Mount Baker and Lake Whatcom (from which it gets its drinking water) and north of the Chuckanut Mountains and Skagit Valley. Whatcom Creek runs through the center of the city.

Census Bureau estimate placed Bellingham's 2003 population at 71,289, and a recent calculation pushes it to 74,770. Bellingham has recently experienced an increase in real estate prices. As of Fall 2006, real estate prices seem to be leveling out.

The boundaries of the city encompass the former towns of Fairhaven (now home to the southern ferry terminus of the Alaska Marine Highway System), New Whatcom, and others. Bellingham is home to Whatcom Community College; Bellingham Technical College; and Western Washington University, which includes, among others, Fairhaven College, Huxley College, and the Woodring College of Education.

The Bellingham International Airport serves regularly scheduled commuter flights to and from Seattle and Friday Harbor, WA, and regularly scheduled jet service to Salt Lake City, Utah; Las Vegas, Nevada; Mesa, AZ; San Diego, CA; Ontario, CA and now Palm Springs, CA. As of August, 2004, the airport is home of the first Air and Marine Operations Center, to assist the US Department of Homeland Security with border surveillance. Amtrak Cascades provides Bellingham with regularly scheduled passenger rail service to Seattle and Vancouver, BC.

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