Coconut Creek, FL Night Sky Brightness
Coconut Creek, FL's night sky, measured from orbit
Coconut Creek reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 88.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Coconut Creek.
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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Coconut Creek
Margate, FL, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Coconut Creek. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Margate, FL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Coconut Creek compares nationally
Coconut Creek, FL has a population of about 59,721, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Coconut Creek's position, 2,812 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.