Coeur d'Alene, ID Night Sky Brightness
Coeur d'Alene, ID's night sky, measured from orbit
Coeur d'Alene's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 91.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Coeur d'Alene.
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.
How far Coeur d'Alene is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hayden, ID, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Hayden, 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 Coeur d'Alene compares nationally
About 57,355 people live in Coeur d'Alene, ID, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Coeur d'Alene's position, 2,920 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.