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.

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 places 1,134 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.