Ada, OK: how dark is the sky here?

Ada's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 35.1% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Ada

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Shawnee, OK, roughly 45 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Ada compares nationally

Ada, OK counts roughly 16,578 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ada places 1,121 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.