Birmingham, MI: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Birmingham in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Birmingham.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Birmingham

Beverly Hills, MI, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Birmingham. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Birmingham compares nationally

Birmingham, MI counts roughly 22,198 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Birmingham places 2,777 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.