Alamo, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Alamo in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 71.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Alamo.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Alamo

5 miles from Alamo, straight-line, sits Pharr, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Alamo's own suburban band.

Pharr, 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 Alamo compares nationally

Alamo, TX has a population of about 20,694, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Alamo places 2,277 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.