Cairo, GA's night sky, measured from orbit

Cairo's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Cairo's sky is brighter than 89.2% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Cairo

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Bainbridge, GA, roughly 22 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Cairo compares nationally

About 10,057 people live in Cairo, GA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Cairo places 2,844 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.