Columbus, MS Night Sky Brightness
Columbus, MS's night sky, measured from orbit
Columbus's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Columbus's sky is brighter than 55.4% of the 3,206 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Columbus
24 miles from Columbus, straight-line, sits Starkville, MS, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Columbus's own suburban band.
Starkville, MS is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Columbus compares nationally
Columbus, MS counts roughly 22,820 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Columbus's position, 1,767 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.