Lincoln City, OR's night sky, measured from orbit

Lincoln City'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. Only 20% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lincoln City.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Lincoln City is from a meaningfully darker sky

40 miles from Lincoln City, straight-line, sits Independence, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lincoln City's own suburban edge band.

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

How Lincoln City compares nationally

About 10,034 people live in Lincoln City, OR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lincoln City places 637 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.