Lynden, WA Night Sky Brightness
Lynden, WA's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Lynden in the suburban edge band. 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 37.2% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Lynden
Anacortes, WA, about 33 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Lynden. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Anacortes, 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 Lynden compares nationally
Lynden, WA counts roughly 16,783 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lynden's position, 1,186 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.