What the night sky looks like over Bonham, TX

Bonham 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. Only 29.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bonham.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Bonham

Sanger, TX, about 58 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Bonham. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Bonham against the rest of the dataset

About 11,115 people live in Bonham, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bonham ranks 950 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.