DarkSkyCheck

Angleton, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Angleton reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 78.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Angleton.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Angleton

19 miles from Angleton, straight-line, sits Iowa Colony, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Angleton's own suburban band.

Iowa Colony, 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 Angleton compares nationally

Angleton, TX has a population of about 20,979, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Angleton places 2,491 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.