Chesterfield, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Chesterfield's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 75.8% 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 Chesterfield

Town and Country, MO, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Chesterfield. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Chesterfield compares nationally

About 49,465 people live in Chesterfield, MO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Chesterfield places 2,417 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.