Oak Harbor, WA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Oak Harbor 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. Only 17.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Oak Harbor.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Oak Harbor is from a meaningfully darker sky

13 miles from Oak Harbor, straight-line, sits Anacortes, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Oak Harbor's own suburban edge band.

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 Oak Harbor compares nationally

Oak Harbor, WA counts roughly 24,163 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Oak Harbor places 548 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.