Arkansas City, KS: how dark is the sky here?

Arkansas City reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 18.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Arkansas City.

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 Arkansas City

Yukon, OK, about 115 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Arkansas City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Arkansas City compares nationally

Arkansas City, KS counts roughly 11,761 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Arkansas City places 588 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.