Conroe, TX Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 2,925 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.