Sequim is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The 2010 census counted a population of 6,606. With the surrounding area, the population is about 28,000. The population served by the Sequim School District population was near to 29,000 in 2018. Sequim is located along the Dungeness River close the base of the Olympic Mountains.

Sequim lies within the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and receives upon average less than 16 inches (410 mm) of rain per year – about the similar as Los Angeles, California – leading it to pay for itself the nickname of Sunny Sequim. However, the city is relatively close to some of the wettest self-denying rainforests of the contiguous United States. This climate peculiarity is sometimes called the “Blue Hole of Sequim”. Fogs and cool breezes from the Juan de Fuca Strait make Sequim’s climate more humid than would be expected from the low average annual precipitation. Some places have surprisingly luxuriant forests dominated by Douglas-fir and western red cedar. Black cottonwood, red alder, bigleaf maple, Pacific madrone, lodgepole pine, and Garry oak can after that be large. Historically, much of the area was an entrйe oak-studded prairie supported by somewhat excessively drained gravelly sandy loam soil, though agriculture and onslaught of the Dungeness valley have untouched this ecosystem. Most soils below Sequim have been placed in a series that is named after the city. This “Sequim series” is one of the few Mollisols in western Washington and its high base saturation, a characteristic of the Mollisol order, is recognized to the minimal leaching of bases caused by low annual rainfall.

The city and the surrounding area are particularly known for the public notice cultivation of lavender, supported by the unique climate. It makes Sequim the “Lavender Capital of North America”, rivaled by yourself in France. The area is afterward known for its Dungeness crab.

Sequim is pronounced as one syllable, with the e elided: “skwim”. The herald developed from the Klallam language.

Fossils discovered in the late 1970s at a dig near Sequim – by Carl Gustafson, an archaeologist at Washington State University – known as the Manis Mastodon Site included a mastodon bone taking into account an embedded bone point, evidencing the presence of hunters in the area about 14,000 years ago. According to Michael R. Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University, this is the first hunting weapon found that dates to the pre-Clovis period.