Clute, TX Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Clute, TX
Clute's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 58.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Clute.
The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Clute is from a meaningfully darker sky
28 miles from Clute, straight-line, sits Galveston, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Clute's own suburban band.
Galveston, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Clute against the rest of the dataset
Clute, TX has a population of about 10,893, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Clute ranks 1,853 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.