Alamogordo, NM's night sky, measured from orbit

Alamogordo's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Alamogordo's sky is brighter than 49.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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 Alamogordo

Las Cruces, NM, about 62 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Alamogordo. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Alamogordo compares nationally

Alamogordo, NM counts roughly 31,667 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Alamogordo places 1,571 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.