What the night sky looks like over Cañon City, CO

Cañon City's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 22.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cañon City.

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.

How far Cañon City is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Aurora, CO, roughly 92 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

Cañon City against the rest of the dataset

Cañon City, CO has a population of about 17,193, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Cañon City ranks 725 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.