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.

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 places 1,767 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.