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.

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 places 2,812 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.