Colleyville, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Colleyville 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. That's brighter than 91.4% of the 3,206 US 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 Colleyville is from a meaningfully darker sky

Hurst, TX, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Colleyville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Colleyville compares nationally

Colleyville, TX has a population of about 26,012, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Colleyville places 2,915 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.