Cairo, GA Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 2,844 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.