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.

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 places 3,086 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.