Lino Lakes, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Lino Lakes'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. Only 2.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lino Lakes.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Lino Lakes is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hugo, MN, roughly 7 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Lino Lakes compares nationally

Lino Lakes, MN counts roughly 22,774 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lino Lakes places 90 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.