Bend, OR: how dark is the sky here?

Bend reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 81.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Bend

28 miles from Bend, straight-line, sits Prineville, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bend's own suburban band.

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

How Bend compares nationally

Bend, OR counts roughly 106,926 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Bend places 2,589 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.