Puyallup, WA Night Sky Brightness
Puyallup, WA: how dark is the sky here?
Puyallup's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 78.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Puyallup
4 miles from Puyallup, straight-line, sits Edgewood, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Puyallup's own suburban band.
Edgewood, 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 Puyallup compares nationally
About 42,552 people live in Puyallup, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Puyallup places 2,506 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.