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.

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 places 1,186 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.