What the night sky looks like over Woodburn, OR

Satellite radiance puts Woodburn 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 37.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Woodburn.

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 Woodburn

Lake Oswego, OR, about 20 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Woodburn. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Woodburn against the rest of the dataset

About 30,449 people live in Woodburn, OR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Woodburn ranks 1,194 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.