Cooper City, FL Night Sky Brightness
Cooper City, FL's night sky, measured from orbit
Cooper City reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Cooper City's sky is brighter than 59.8% 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.
The nearest darker sky to Cooper City
2 miles from Cooper City, straight-line, sits Davie, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cooper City's own suburban band.
Davie, FL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Cooper City compares nationally
Cooper City, FL counts roughly 35,541 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Cooper City's position, 1,907 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.