Baytown, TX Night Sky Brightness
Baytown, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Baytown's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 90.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Baytown.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Baytown is from a meaningfully darker sky
8 miles from Baytown, straight-line, sits Mont Belvieu, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Baytown's own urban band.
Mont Belvieu, 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 Baytown compares nationally
Baytown, TX has a population of about 86,004, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Baytown's position, 2,895 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.