Benbrook, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Benbrook in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 88.1% 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 Benbrook is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is White Settlement, TX, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

White Settlement, 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 Benbrook compares nationally

Benbrook, TX has a population of about 24,542, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Benbrook places 2,809 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.