Coral Springs, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Coral Springs's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 87.5% of the 3,206 US 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.

How far Coral Springs is from a meaningfully darker sky

Margate, FL, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Coral Springs. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Margate, 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 Coral Springs compares nationally

About 140,808 people live in Coral Springs, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Coral Springs places 2,789 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.