Cottonwood Heights, UT: how dark is the sky here?

Cottonwood Heights reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 33.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Cottonwood Heights

11 miles from Cottonwood Heights, straight-line, sits Alpine, UT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cottonwood Heights's own suburban edge band.

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

How Cottonwood Heights compares nationally

About 32,437 people live in Cottonwood Heights, UT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Cottonwood Heights places 1,060 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.