Cibolo, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Cibolo'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. Cibolo's sky is brighter than 35.2% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Cibolo

Helotes, TX, about 28 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Cibolo. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Helotes, 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 Cibolo compares nationally

About 37,816 people live in Cibolo, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Cibolo places 1,122 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.