Colorado Springs, CO Night Sky Brightness
Colorado Springs, CO's night sky, measured from orbit
Colorado Springs's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 35.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Colorado Springs.
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.
The nearest darker sky to Colorado Springs
58 miles from Colorado Springs, straight-line, sits Aurora, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Colorado Springs's own suburban edge band.
Aurora, CO is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Colorado Springs compares nationally
Colorado Springs, CO has a population of about 493,554, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Colorado Springs's position, 1,134 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.