Cedar Park, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Cedar Park in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 52.7% 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 Cedar Park

Round Rock, TX, about 9 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Cedar Park. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Round Rock, 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 Cedar Park compares nationally

Cedar Park, TX counts roughly 78,380 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Cedar Park places 1,679 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.