Arlington, TX Night Sky Brightness
Arlington, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Arlington in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Arlington's sky is brighter than 96.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Arlington
7 miles from Arlington, straight-line, sits Kennedale, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Arlington's own urban band.
Kennedale, 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 Arlington compares nationally
Arlington, TX has a population of about 403,672, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Arlington's position, 3,086 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.