Addison, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Addison's sky measures inner-city here. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. That's brighter than 99.3% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Addison

4 miles from Addison, straight-line, sits Farmers Branch, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Addison's own inner-city band.

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

How Addison compares nationally

Addison, TX counts roughly 17,257 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Addison places 3,165 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.