Cocoa Beach, FL Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Cocoa Beach, FL?
Satellite radiance puts Cocoa Beach in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Cocoa Beach's sky is brighter than 1.4% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
Cocoa Beach is already about as dark as this dataset gets
Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Cocoa Beach. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.
Cocoa Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 11,386 people live in Cocoa Beach, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Cocoa Beach comes in at 47, darkest to brightest.