What the night sky looks like over Bountiful, UT

Bountiful 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 20.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bountiful.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bountiful

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Magna, UT, roughly 19 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

Bountiful against the rest of the dataset

Bountiful, UT counts roughly 45,024 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bountiful ranks 663 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.