Anacortes, WA: how dark is the sky here?

Anacortes's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 6.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Anacortes.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Anacortes

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Port Townsend, WA, roughly 26 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

Port Townsend, WA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Anacortes compares nationally

About 18,148 people live in Anacortes, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Anacortes places 200 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.