Gig Harbor, WA's night sky, measured from orbit

Gig Harbor 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. Gig Harbor's sky is brighter than 16.8% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Gig Harbor

13 miles from Gig Harbor, straight-line, sits Lakewood, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Gig Harbor's own suburban edge band.

Lakewood, 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 Gig Harbor compares nationally

Gig Harbor, WA counts roughly 12,643 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Gig Harbor places 535 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.