Carrollton, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Carrollton reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 86.5% of the 3,206 US 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 Carrollton

Farmers Branch, TX, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Carrollton. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Carrollton compares nationally

Carrollton, TX counts roughly 135,456 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Carrollton places 2,759 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.