Pendleton, OR's night sky, measured from orbit

Pendleton'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. Pendleton's sky is brighter than 29.1% of the 3,206 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 Pendleton

Pasco, WA, about 43 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Pendleton. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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 Pendleton compares nationally

Pendleton, OR counts roughly 17,026 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Pendleton places 928 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.