Ann Arbor, MI: how dark is the sky here?

Ann Arbor'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 92.6% 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 Ann Arbor

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is South Lyon, MI, roughly 13 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Ann Arbor compares nationally

Ann Arbor, MI counts roughly 122,925 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ann Arbor places 2,952 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.