What the night sky looks like over Beaverton, OR

Beaverton reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 42% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Beaverton

7 miles from Beaverton, straight-line, sits Lake Oswego, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Beaverton's own suburban edge band.

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

Beaverton against the rest of the dataset

Beaverton, OR counts roughly 98,302 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Beaverton ranks 1,340 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.