Columbia, MO: how dark is the sky here?

Columbia reads as inner-city on this dataset's scale. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. That's brighter than 99.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Columbia

Fulton, MO, about 21 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Columbia. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Columbia compares nationally

About 130,900 people live in Columbia, MO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Columbia places 3,181 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.