Conroe, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Conroe reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 91.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Conroe.

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 Conroe

18 miles from Conroe, straight-line, sits Tomball, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Conroe's own urban band.

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

How Conroe compares nationally

Conroe, TX has a population of about 114,581, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Conroe places 2,925 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.