Chandler, AZ's night sky, measured from orbit

Chandler's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Chandler's sky is brighter than 86.1% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Chandler

Mesa, AZ, about 11 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Chandler. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Chandler compares nationally

Chandler, AZ has a population of about 281,231, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Chandler places 2,744 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.