Airway Heights, WA Night Sky Brightness
Airway Heights, WA's night sky, measured from orbit
Airway Heights's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Airway Heights's sky is brighter than 64.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Airway Heights
30 miles from Airway Heights, straight-line, sits Post Falls, ID, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Airway Heights's own suburban band.
Post Falls, ID is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Airway Heights compares nationally
Airway Heights, WA counts roughly 11,950 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Airway Heights's position, 2,043 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.