DarkSkyCheck

Cedartown, GA Night Sky Brightness

How dark is the sky in Cedartown, GA?

Suburban edge
16.1 nW/cm2/sr

Cedartown'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. Cedartown's sky is brighter than 32.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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 Cedartown

37 miles from Cedartown, straight-line, sits Douglasville, GA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cedartown's own suburban edge band.

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

Cedartown against the rest of the dataset

Cedartown, GA has a population of about 10,313, 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, Cedartown comes in at 1,025, darkest to brightest.