Bedford, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Bedford'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 92.7% 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.

How far Bedford is from a meaningfully darker sky

Hurst, TX, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Bedford. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Hurst, 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 Bedford compares nationally

Bedford, TX counts roughly 48,728 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Bedford places 2,956 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.