Cedar Hill, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Cedar Hill, TX?
Cedar Hill'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 39.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cedar Hill.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Cedar Hill
11 miles from Cedar Hill, straight-line, sits Red Oak, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cedar Hill's own suburban edge band.
Red Oak, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Cedar Hill against the rest of the dataset
Cedar Hill, TX has a population of about 49,618, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Cedar Hill comes in at 1,252, darkest to brightest.