Crestview, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Crestview's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Crestview's sky is brighter than 5.1% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Crestview

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Spanish Fort, AL, roughly 76 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Crestview compares nationally

Crestview, FL counts roughly 30,727 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Crestview places 163 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.