DarkSkyCheck

Creve Coeur, MO: how dark is the sky here?

Creve Coeur's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 71.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Creve Coeur.

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 Creve Coeur

Town and Country, MO, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Creve Coeur. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Creve Coeur compares nationally

About 18,533 people live in Creve Coeur, MO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Creve Coeur places 2,291 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.