Issaquah, WA Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Issaquah, WA
Issaquah reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Issaquah.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Issaquah
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Sammamish, WA, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Sammamish, WA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Issaquah against the rest of the dataset
Issaquah, WA has a population of about 39,664, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Issaquah ranks 2,746 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.