Climate Pledge Arena

The short list: seats to buy at Climate Pledge Arena

For a Seattle Kraken game, the standout value is Loge 105–110, the middle-ring seats over the net Seattle attacks twice: you can read plays forming and still feel the hits, and the main atrium is steps away. Want to be nearer the boards? Take middle rows in the lower corners, 4, 6, 9 or 11, which still show the whole sheet. Watching the budget? Look at 201–204 upstairs, above the benches.

Climate Pledge Arena stands on the Seattle Center grounds a short hop north of downtown Seattle. Four teams play here: the NHL's Kraken, the WNBA's Seattle Storm, the Seattle Torrent of the PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League) and the Seattle University men's basketball team. It is also where most big arena tours stop in the city. Hockey seating is 17,151, basketball 18,300 and concerts 17,200.

Walking down to your seat: how the sunken bowl is numbered

Most of the bowl was dug below street level, which flips the usual routine: from the street-level doors, most fans head downstairs to reach their seats. The fan site Sound of Hockey describes three rings, with numbering that matches seat-view listings:

• Lower bowl (1–26): the ring nearest the playing surface, off the below-grade concourse. Row A is the front, and the glass-side premium rows, branded the Cove, are AA and BB.
• Loge (101–126): you step into this ring straight from street level, and it feels nearer the floor than most second tiers. The AMEX Club takes up 118–123.
• Upper level (201–226): a steep deck running down both long sides, with the Space Needle Lounge at 206–209.

For hockey orientation: team benches line the Symetra Club side (1, 2 and 26), while the penalty boxes sit across the ice by the WaFd Club (13–15). Confirm any section against the arena's own map at checkout.

Kraken and Torrent: which end, which ring

• The attack end (lower 3 to 12): Seattle attacks this goal in two of three periods; 7 and 8 are dead center behind the net. Sit here for two periods of home-team offense.
• Loge 105 to 110: the same end, one ring higher, and the seat many regulars consider the smartest buy, and the Alaska Airlines atrium puts restrooms close by.
• Lower corners (4, 6, 9, 11), middle rows: a full-ice view while still near the boards.
• Bench side upper (201 to 204): the budget choice, with a clear look across the whole sheet.
• The visitors' end (about 16 to 25): fine seats, but you watch the home team defend for two periods.

Tickets go fastest for Friday and Saturday games, rivals and late-season games that matter. Torrent games use the same rink layout, so the same logic applies.

Storm basketball and concert setups

Storm games

Basketball uses the same floor space as hockey, so the lower-bowl sideline sections and the center Loge sections give the cleanest views. Storm demand can exceed the listed capacity: the building's basketball record, 18,343, came for a Storm game against Indiana in May 2024. The season runs from late spring into early fall.

Concerts

With the stage at one end, the floor and the lower sections looking straight at it carry the highest demand. Sections beside the stage may not see all of the production; a listing labeled side view or limited view is telling you that.

Netting, scoreboard gaps and steep rows

• Upper 211–217 from row F back: these press-box-side seats cannot see the main video boards, according to Sound of Hockey; extra screens are installed for them instead.
• End seats right behind a goal: 7, 8, 20 and 21 downstairs and 105–110 in the Loge watch through the safety net. Many fans tune it out quickly, but not everyone does.
• Upper rows if heights bother you: the steep pitch is good for seeing over people, yet a tall fan one row down still blocks more than you might expect.

Every Reserved Seat order comes with guaranteed entry.

One bag, X-ray doors and other entry rules

As of fall 2026, you may bring either one bag, clear or not, up to 14 by 14 by 6 inches, or one small clutch, purse or wallet up to 4 by 6 by 1.5 inches. Anything larger than a clutch is X-rayed at dedicated bag lines at entries 1, 8 and 11, so head to one of those doors if you are carrying one. Check the arena guide for the current policy before you go.

• Doors: an hour and a half ahead of Kraken games and an hour ahead of Storm games; concerts set their own times.
• Tickets: phone only, through Ticketmaster.
• Water: bring a reusable bottle (no glass, 32 ounces or less) as long as it is empty.
• Payment: no cash at stands; many use Amazon's Just Walk Out system, and a cash-to-card machine is in the southeast corner of the main concourse by section 4.
• Re-entry: not allowed.

Getting there on your ticket's transit pass

As of fall 2026, your public-event ticket also works as a free fare for Seattle-area buses, Link trains and the monorail. Most fans ride Link into downtown, get off at Westlake and hop the monorail, which covers the distance to Seattle Center in roughly a minute and a half.

Driving is possible but secondary. The Kraken recommend booking ahead through SpotHero for these garages:

• Arena Garage: operated by the arena, with a tunnel straight into the building and EV chargers at no charge.
• 1st Ave N Garage: also arena-operated, on the far side of Lenny Wilkens Way to the south.
• 5th Ave Garage: a Seattle Center facility at the eastern edge of the grounds.

For rideshare, you can be dropped at four points: Republican and Warren, the circle by MoPOP, Mercer Street near McCaw Hall, or Denny Way near the Pacific Science Center. Going home, meet your driver at the Thomas Street and Taylor Avenue N pickup. The Kraken game-day guide has the latest details.

Pavilion, Coliseum, KeyArena, Climate Pledge

The sloping roof is the oldest part of the building. Paul Thiry designed it for Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, the Century 21 Exposition, where it debuted that April as the state's pavilion. The city then turned it into the Seattle Center Coliseum, and the Seattle SuperSonics called it home for most of the years from 1967 to 2008, including back-to-back Finals appearances in 1978 and 1979. Remodeled and renamed KeyArena in 1995, it staged the Finals again in 1996.

Once the Sonics relocated to Oklahoma, Seattle went looking for a remodel big enough to win an NHL franchise. The expansion vote went Seattle's way in December 2018, and construction began a day later. While 72 temporary steel columns held up the protected roof, crews hauled out some 600,000 cubic yards of dirt from underneath, keeping the roof and three exterior walls. The privately financed project, led by Oak View Group, cost about 1.15 billion dollars. Foo Fighters played the opening show on October 19, 2021; four days later the Kraken hosted the Vancouver Canucks in the franchise's home debut.

The name comes from Amazon, which acquired the rights in June 2020 and chose to promote The Climate Pledge, the company's net-zero carbon program, instead of its own brand. Zero-waste events, ice made with collected rain and a focus on local food are among the stated goals, and the transit-included ticket belongs to the same effort.

Sources

• Wikipedia – Climate Pledge Arena
• Climate Pledge Arena – Arena Guide
• Seattle Kraken – Game Day Guide
• Sound Transit – Climate Pledge Arena
• Sound of Hockey – Climate Pledge Arena seat guide
• A View From My Seat – Climate Pledge Arena Section 21