Wenatchee, WA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Wenatchee in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Wenatchee.

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.

How far Wenatchee is from a meaningfully darker sky

2 miles from Wenatchee, straight-line, sits East Wenatchee, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Wenatchee's own urban band.

East Wenatchee, 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 Wenatchee compares nationally

About 35,401 people live in Wenatchee, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Wenatchee places 2,774 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.