Cary, IL Night Sky Brightness
Cary, IL's night sky, measured from orbit
Cary's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Cary's sky is brighter than 58.7% 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 Cary
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Lake in the Hills, IL, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Lake in the Hills, IL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Cary compares nationally
About 18,031 people live in Cary, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Cary's position, 1,871 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.