Clarksville, TN's night sky, measured from orbit

Clarksville's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Clarksville's sky is brighter than 4.6% 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.

How far Clarksville is from a meaningfully darker sky

Fort Oglethorpe, GA, about 163 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Clarksville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Clarksville compares nationally

About 185,690 people live in Clarksville, TN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Clarksville places 149 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.