Buffalo, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Buffalo's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Buffalo's sky is brighter than 78.6% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Buffalo

9 miles from Buffalo, straight-line, sits St. Michael, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Buffalo's own suburban band.

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

How Buffalo compares nationally

Buffalo, MN has a population of about 16,736, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Buffalo places 2,507 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.