Cibolo, TX Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 1,122 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.