What the night sky looks like over Kennewick, WA

Kennewick's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 24.1% 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 Kennewick

Pasco, WA, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Kennewick. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Kennewick against the rest of the dataset

Kennewick, WA counts roughly 86,728 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Kennewick ranks 768 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.