Lakewood, WA's night sky, measured from orbit

Lakewood's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 10.9% of the 3,206 US 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 Lakewood

16 miles from Lakewood, straight-line, sits Yelm, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lakewood's own rural band.

Yelm, 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 Lakewood compares nationally

Lakewood, WA counts roughly 62,709 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lakewood places 347 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.