Azle, TX Night Sky Brightness
Azle, TX: how dark is the sky here?
Azle's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 75.6% 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
Where to go for a darker sky near Azle
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Weatherford, TX, roughly 16 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Weatherford, 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 Azle compares nationally
Azle, TX has a population of about 15,046, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Azle places 2,411 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.