What the night sky looks like over Spokane, WA

Spokane reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Spokane's sky is brighter than 85.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Spokane

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Airway Heights, WA, roughly 7 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Airway Heights, WA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Spokane against the rest of the dataset

Spokane, WA counts roughly 230,609 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Spokane ranks 2,728 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.