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.

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 places 2,895 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.