Cabot, AR's night sky, measured from orbit

Cabot's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 90.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cabot.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Cabot is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Jacksonville, AR, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Cabot compares nationally

Cabot, AR has a population of about 27,575, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Cabot places 2,887 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.