Boca Raton, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Boca Raton in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Boca Raton's sky is brighter than 94.7% of the 3,206 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 Boca Raton

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Lighthouse Point, FL, roughly 7 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Boca Raton compares nationally

Boca Raton, FL has a population of about 102,238, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Boca Raton places 3,018 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.