Baton Rouge, LA's night sky, measured from orbit

Baton Rouge's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Baton Rouge's sky is brighter than 83.8% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Baton Rouge

Baker, LA, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Baton Rouge. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Baton Rouge compares nationally

Baton Rouge, LA counts roughly 220,907 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Baton Rouge places 2,672 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.