Missoula, MT: how dark is the sky here?

Missoula'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 40.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Missoula.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Missoula

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Pasco, WA, roughly 246 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Pasco, 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 Missoula compares nationally

Missoula, MT counts roughly 78,204 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Missoula places 1,287 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.