DarkSkyCheck

Chamblee, GA Night Sky Brightness

How dark is the sky in Chamblee, GA?

Urban
53.0 nW/cm2/sr

Chamblee's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Chamblee's sky is brighter than 90.7% 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 Chamblee

Dunwoody, GA, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Chamblee. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Chamblee against the rest of the dataset

Chamblee, GA counts roughly 32,321 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Chamblee comes in at 2,892, darkest to brightest.