Boca Raton, FL Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 3,018 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.