What the night sky looks like over Arvada, CO

Arvada reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 12% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Arvada

Evans, CO, about 42 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Arvada. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Arvada against the rest of the dataset

About 121,873 people live in Arvada, CO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Arvada ranks 385 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.