Mukilteo, WA Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 404 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.