What the night sky looks like over Ballwin, MO

Ballwin's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 91.7% 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 Ballwin

Ellisville, MO, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Ballwin. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Ballwin against the rest of the dataset

Ballwin, MO has a population of about 31,036, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Ballwin ranks 2,922 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.