Mukilteo, WA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Mukilteo 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 12.6% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Mukilteo

Lake Forest Park, WA, about 11 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Mukilteo. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Lake Forest Park, 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 Mukilteo compares nationally

About 21,299 people live in Mukilteo, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mukilteo places 404 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.