Andover, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Andover reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 2.4% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Andover

Ham Lake, MN, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Andover. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Andover compares nationally

Andover, MN counts roughly 33,426 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Andover places 76 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.