Atlantic Beach, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Atlantic Beach's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 12.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Atlantic Beach

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Leesburg, FL, roughly 116 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Atlantic Beach compares nationally

Atlantic Beach, FL has a population of about 13,279, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Atlantic Beach places 391 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.