Conway, AR's night sky, measured from orbit

Conway's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 60.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Conway.

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 Conway

21 miles from Conway, straight-line, sits Sherwood, AR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Conway's own suburban band.

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

How Conway compares nationally

About 70,711 people live in Conway, AR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Conway places 1,929 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.