Belmont, NC's night sky, measured from orbit

Belmont reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 23.1% of the 3,206 US 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 Belmont

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Tega Cay, SC, roughly 13 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Belmont compares nationally

Belmont, NC counts roughly 16,044 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Belmont places 737 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.