What the night sky looks like over Anniston, AL

Satellite radiance puts Anniston in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 5.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Anniston

Rainbow City, AL, about 24 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Anniston. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Anniston against the rest of the dataset

Anniston, AL counts roughly 21,127 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Anniston ranks 185 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.