What the night sky looks like over Longview, WA

Longview reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. 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 38.6% 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.

How far Longview is from a meaningfully darker sky

Lake Oswego, OR, about 52 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Longview. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Longview against the rest of the dataset

Longview, WA has a population of about 38,294, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Longview ranks 1,231 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.