Amarillo, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Amarillo, TX?
Amarillo reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Amarillo.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Amarillo
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Canyon, TX, roughly 15 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Canyon, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Amarillo against the rest of the dataset
Amarillo, TX has a population of about 203,729, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Amarillo comes in at 3,072, darkest to brightest.