Yakima, WA: how dark is the sky here?

Yakima reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Yakima's sky is brighter than 47.8% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Yakima

Grandview, WA, about 39 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Yakima. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Grandview, 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 Yakima compares nationally

About 97,390 people live in Yakima, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Yakima places 1,525 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.