Allen, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Allen's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 98% of the 3,206 US 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 Allen

4 miles from Allen, straight-line, sits Fairview, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Allen's own urban band.

Fairview, 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 Allen compares nationally

Allen, TX has a population of about 113,746, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Allen places 3,123 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.